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PRISTINA - The lawyer of a Kosovo-Metohija Serb arrested by Pristina's authorities on Sunday confirmed to Tanjug on Monday he had appealed a decision by the Pristina Basic Court to place his client in 30-day custody.

The returnee family Jankovi in the village of Blagaa in the municipality of Istok had an auxiliary building burned down, and the damage is estimated at four to five thousand euros.
Duan Jankovi says that many things were burnt in the fire.

Kurti's party did badly even in the municipalities where it had more than 60 percent of the votes in the parliamentary elections in February.
That Kurti experienced a total debacle is shown by the fact that in 38 municipalities in which there were elections, he did not get a sufficient number of votes to win in the first round.

According to the Serbian government, Brnabic "pointed out to the importance of further uninterrupted presence and operation of that mission in order to create conditions for a normal and dignified life our people in the province."

Another Kosovo man has been killed in Syria, while fighting alongside the terrorist organisation of ISIS (ISIL, Islamic State), gazetaexpress.com reports.

The killed jihadist is Betim Ibrahimaj from the municipality of Istok. The news has been confirmed by his wife who is also in Syria. She informed members of the Ibrahimaj family, that their son Betim has been killed.

Unknown assailants stoned a bus carrying around 40 Serbs in the village of Padaliste, in the municipality of Istok in Kosovo on Thursday evening.

No one was injured, but damage was done to the vehicle, that has license plates issued in Kosovo and was en route from Belgrade to Gorazdevac when it came under attack.

Kosovo's Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic said on Tuesday that a Serb home in Osojane, Istok municipality, has been broken into and robbed.

The house belongs to the Repanovic family, and it was robbed while they were away for the Christmas holidays, Jevtic told Tanjug.

ISTOK - Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic said Monday that an attack had taken place on the property of the Serb returnee family Spasic from the village of Djurakovac in the municipality of Istok, in the western part of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).