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BELGRADE, Serbia The Serbian government has called early local elections for Sunday in two municipalities in Kosovo, reports said on Wednesday. Voters will cast their ballots for municipal authorities of Priština, which have been dislocated to Gračanica, and Peć, moved to Goraždevac.

The Serbian Justice Ministry has announced that a state commission will be formed by September to mark out uncovered mass graves from 1944-46, daily Danas reported Thursday. The graves are thought to contain victims of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito’s Partisans. “The forming of this commission is good for our …

Serbian government officials deny that they discussed the possibility of transferring Guantanamo detainees to Serbia’s Zabela prison. “The Serbian government did not discuss receiving prisoners from the US-controlled Guantanamo prison in Cuba to the special ward of the Zabela Correction Facility near the town of Pozarevac,” the director of the …

BELGRADE, Serbia The IMF’s approval for increasing the budget deficit, which the government is hopeful of, is only a short-term solution for the economy. The government is ready to ask the International Monetary Fund to allow an increase budget deficit, but it is well aware that it will have to …

PRIŠTINA, Kosovo Kosovo police, KPS, spokesman Arber Beka said last night its members arrested a Serb “suspected of having committed war crimes in Kosovo”. This morning, he said that the Serb, “whose surname is Vučković” was arrested in Prizren. The spokesman specified that the suspect was born in 1973 and …

LESKOVAC, Kosovo Kosovo war veterans from Leskovac in southern Serbia are asking for a meeting with President Boris Tadić, reports said today. They wish to meet with Tadić by August 25, in order to solve the problems regarding the wages owned to them by the state. The former Yugoslav Army …

KRUŠEDOL, Serbia The Serbian Orthodox Krušedol monastery on Mt. Fruška Gora is marking five centuries since its foundation. The anniversary will be celebrated with holy liturgies and a church and folk assembly. Metropolitan of Montenegro and Littoral Amfilohije and 14 bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) served a liturgy …

BELGRADE, Serbia Apart from 288 flats purchased at prices below market value during mandate of Vojislav Kostunica, another 100 flats are in the process of purchase. For 212 flats the users have not submit request for purchase. Serbia Government is to decide what shall happen with the remaining 312 state …

KOSOVO Kosovo radio and TV station (RTK) broadcasted exclusive videos of conversations of the three Serbian spies, arrested 2 months ago in Kosovo. On the videos, you can see how the three Serbian spies talk about buying false testimonies for trafficking of human organs from OVK representatives. It is confirmed …

BELGRADE The Serb National Council of Kosovo (SNV) official Radmila Trajković has commented on the government’s stance regarding the announced local elections in Kosovo. She said that “local self-government will have no responsibility toward Serbs” if Belgrade called for a boycott of the vote, scheduled for November. “I do not …