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The Suhareka/Suva Reka municipal assembly declared that Serb families should not return to the village of Mushtisht/Mustiste, the focus of recent protests about wartime crimes.

Fiji began a massive cleanup on Feb. 22 after one of the most powerful storms recorded in the southern hemisphere tore through the Pacific island nation, killing 21 people, flattening remote villages and cutting off communications.

ZASAVICA - The Suva Planina, Rtanj and Belanica will be declared as areas of national importance in 2015, and the Serbian government has allocated special funds to the amount of RSD 210 million as assistance to the functioning of protected areas and areas of special importance, Serbian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic stated on Friday.

Thaci's statement "irresponsible and untrue"

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija has strongly condemned a statement by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

Earlier this week, he said that Serbian forces "committed genocide in Kosovo."

In its reaction, the office stressed that this claim was "irresponsible and untrue."

PRISTINA - The remains of 46 individuals, including members of the Berisa and Bitici families who were found in Batajnica (near Belgrade) in 2001, were buried on Wednesday, EULEX has said in a release.

The Department of Forensic Medicine (DFM) handed over the remains to the families this week, the release reads.