Kosovo Polje

Pristina Basic Court on Monday ordered 30 days of detention for A.L., suspected for setting fire to the house of Alban Selimi, a staffer on Kosovo's public broadcaster, Radio Television of Kosovo, RTK, on Thursday.

The garage which is part of the house located in Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje, near Pristina, was heavily damaged by the fire. No casualties were reported.

International and local Kosovo press associations have condemned the attack against an investigative journalist who was brutally beaten near his house in Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje, at around midnight on Wednesday.

The last families left for Serbia in end of June 1999. The next day, someone set the houses on fire.

Two decades later, Zhakova/Zakovo remains in ruins. Like many other similar 'ghost villages' in Kosovo, its residents never came back.

A Kosovo man has told police he tore down a plaque commemorating two Serb journalists who disappeared while reporting on the war in 1998 - the seventh time that the memorial has been vandalised.

KOSOVO POLJE - Unidentified individuals have thrown three Molotov cocktails at two establishments in Kosovo Polje and sprayed anti-Serb grafitti on the building where the businesses are located, local journalist Zoran Babovic has told Tanjug.

The incident happened on Sunday, when three people in a car threw Molotov cocktails at a cafe and hairdresser's owned by a Serb.

The supreme court in Pristina acquitted two Kosovo Serbs who were charged with raping a 16-year-old ethnic Albanian girl during the war in April 1999.

KOSOVO POLJE - Unidentified persons have stoned the house of Vladimir Mitrovic in the village of Bresje, the municipality of Kosovo Polje, KiM Radio reported.

No one was injured, but the property was damaged.

The incident took place around 22:30 CET on Tuesday evening, while Vladimir and his wife were sitting in the living room, the radio reported.