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The team was deployed to strengthen the advisory and monitoring capacities of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in the province, EULEX announced today.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Srpska lista leader Goran Rakic said on Tuesday he had met with the new head of the Eulex mission Giovanni Pietro Barbano to discuss a withdrawal of special units from the north of Kosovo-Metohija and greater presence of Eulex and Kfor patrols.

Kosovo's special prosecution on Tuesday filed two indictments for organized crime and money laundering against 22 and 17 persons respectively.

Both groups were allegedly led by Azem Syla, former member of the Kosovo Assembly from the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, and a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, during the 1998-1999 war.

EULEX police arrested war crime suspect Semsit Krasnici, Radio Television Serbia said Tuesday night citing electronic media in Pristina.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The construction of houses launched by ethnic Albanians in the Brdjani neighbourhood in northern Kosovska Mitrovica that caused alarm among Serbs have been interrupted after the talks between the mayors of the southern and northern parts of the city, Goran Rakic and Agim Bahtiri.

Albanians halt controversial construction works

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Construction works launched by ethnic Albanians in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica have been halted, said reports from the town in northern Kosovo.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Ethnic Albanians began construction works in the Brdjani neighborhood in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday morning, causing a stir among local Serbs who gathered to voice their protest.

In the meantime, an intervention unit of the Kosovo police, and EULEX police arrived at the site, says Tanjug's on-site-reporter.

Three Serbs acquitted of war crimes charges

PRIŠTINA -- The mixed trial chamber of the Priština Basic Court acquitted on Thursday three Serbs of charges that they committed a war crime during the Kosovo war in 1999.

PRISTINA - The mixed trial chamber of the Pristina Basic Court acquitted on Thursday three Serbs of charges that they committed a war crime during the conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija in 1999.

Brothers Slobodan and Srecko Martinovic and Svetlana Stojanovic were acquitted of charges due to lack of evidence, Srecko Martinovic's lawyer Dejan Vasic told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Serb Radomir Kasalovic, indicted for a murder of a Kosovo police officer in 2011, gave himself in to EULEX police near Zubin Potok in northern Kosovo Tuesday morning.