At least four high officials and dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members, the biggest opposition group in Egypt, have been arrested, BBC reported. The arrests took place only several hours before the mass anti-government demonstration planned for Friday.
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“Kosovo needs ‘clean’ officials”
January 15th, 2011 |
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U.S. Ambassador in Kosovo Christopher Dell said that a good governance, rather than new elections, could solve the election process issues.
He told Priština-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore that credible persons should form the future government.
Patriarch: Foreign officials knew about crimes
January 5th, 2011 |
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Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej today accused the international community of knowing that trade in human organs was taking part in Kosovo. Irinej said in his message, ahead of Orthodox Christmas, that the crime that saw body parts of missing Kosovo Serbs sold for money was taking place with the knowledge of representatives of the international community.
NYC Officials Put Kibosh On Snooki New Year’s Eve Ball Drop In Times Square
December 30th, 2010 |
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So much for a Very Snooki New Year’s Eve! Officials in The Big Apple have pulled the plug on MTV’s buzzed-about “Snooki Ball Drop” in Times Square this New Year’s Eve, PopEater squeals snitched on Wednesday. Earlier this month, MTV announced plans to put Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki†Polizzi inside the ball that will [...]
Minister to discuss Marty’s report with EU officials
December 19th, 2010 |
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Head the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal Rasim Ljajić will discuss Dick Marty’s report on Monday in Strasbourg with top EU officials.
Ljajić will meet with CoE Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio and Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, his office said in a statement.
Kosovo officials shielded by U.S., analyst says
December 18th, 2010 |
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Australian analyst Whit Mason says that CoE investigator Dick Marty’s report shows that the highest Priština officials were above the law thanks to the U.S.
According to the BBC, Mason said that the U.S. did not consciously support the crimes in Kosovo and did not wish to see it remain a ‘banditocracy,’ but it was what their policy in Kosovo led to, by trying to establish stability without changing the situation in the field.
Officials express gratitude to Uruguay
December 8th, 2010 |
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Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković met on Tuesday in Belgrade with Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Luis Almagro.
They discussed in Kosovo and the possibilities for enhancing the two countries’ cooperation in several areas, particularly in the domain of economy.
Officials on Serbs and Kosovo elections
November 11th, 2010 |
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The Serbian government has decided not to call on the Serbian population in Kosovo to vote in the early elections. This is because the voting in the southern province is organized by entities which Serbia does not acknowledge and to which the international community did not give a framework that would be acceptable, Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Goran Bogdanović told Tanjug on Wednesday.
NATO officials visit VS base in south
October 23rd, 2010 |
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Members of a Su NATO parliamentary assembly sub-committe on Saturday visited Serbian Army BAse Jug (South) near Bujanovac. The Department for Public Relations of the Serbian Defense Ministry said in a statement today that they were accompanied by Serbian MPs.
Officials condemn incidents in north
October 21st, 2010 |
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A Ministry for Kosovo official on Wednesday condemned the latest incidents in the northern part of Kosovo. Oliver Ivanović and head of the District of Kosovska Mitrovica Radenko Nedeljković strongly condemned the incidents when two cars were set on fire in Kosovska Mitrovica and ZveÄan.
Intl. officials react to Belgrade violence
October 11th, 2010 |
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Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland expressed concern over yesterday’s violent incidents in Belgrade during the Pride Parade. However, he praised the determination of the Serbian government to protect human rights.
President meets with Estonian officials
September 14th, 2010 |
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President Boris Tadić ended his two-day official visit to Estonia by meeting with Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip. Premier Ansip informed President Tadić about the concept of electronic management that the Estonian administration is using, which has been introduced under a slogan “Computers may not be bribed.”
Domestic officials, parties react to resolution
September 9th, 2010 |
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Most state and party officials have welcomed the government’s decision to submit a harmonized resolution together with the EU to the UN General Assembly. By harmonizing the resolution with the EU, the conditions have been met for the document to be adopted by a consensus in the UN General Assembly, without voting, said the Chief of the Serbian Mission to the UN Fedor StarÄević.
Education union officials meet with PM
September 2nd, 2010 |
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The Serbian education unions met with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković on Thursday in Belgrade. They welcomed the decision that the salaries in Serbia’s education system be increased on three occasions during 2011, adding that there are also other requests they will not give up on.
Top officials meet with German FM
August 26th, 2010 |
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Serbia’s top officials are today in Belgrade meeting with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who arrived on his first official visit here. Media reported ahead of the meetings that a key topic would be reaching a compromise over Serbia’s draft Kosovo resolution submitted to the UN General Assembly.
K. Albanian officials: Kosovo has sponsors
August 6th, 2010 |
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Kosovo Albanian government’s FM Skender Hyseni says there are many UN countries willing to support Kosovo’s independence at the forthcoming UN General Assembly. “I do not want to disclose who those sponsors are. There are a lot of countries which are ready to support us, but I do not know for certain whether they would do that or not. We have tightly cooperated with Kosovo’s partners at the Security Council (SC) – three key countries which have veto power at the SC,” Hyseni said in PriÅ¡tina.
Medvedev warns security officials
July 22nd, 2010 |
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Security officials and energy company chiefs will be fired if there are more incidents like Wednesday’s bombing of a hydropower plant in Russia’s N. Caucasus. This is according President Dmitry Medvedev, who made the statement on Thursday, RIA Novosti reported.
“Kurds contracting Serbs to kill Turk officials”
July 20th, 2010 |
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Turkish media are reporting that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has hired three Serb snipers to assassinate top politicians in that country. Istanbul’s Zeman daily writes that the information which came from intelligence reports “prompted bodyguards protecting the president, the prime minister and other ministers as well as high-ranking military commanders to be placed on alert”.