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Bishop of Raška-Prizren enthroned

The newly-elected Bishop of Raška-Prizren Eparchy Teodosije was enthroned in the southern Kosovo city of Prizren on Sunday.

The Divine Liturgy was served by Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej.

Thousands of Serbs without telephone service

Serbs in their enclaves in central and southern Kosovo have been left without landline and mobile telephone service. Beta news agency reports that eighty thousand Serbs in Kosovo were left without mobile, and a few thousands without fixed telephony.

Kosovo: Arms smugglers arrested

Seven people suspected of involvement in weapons smuggling were arrested in the southern Kosovo village of Begrac, near Mt. Kačanik. This came after an incident near Blace on the Macedonian border, when police and a group of Kosovo Albanians exchanged fire.

Telekom network restored in enclave in south

The southern Kosovo municipality of Å trpce once again has access to the Telekom Srbija mobile phone networks, according to local officials.
Municipal President working within the system of the Serbian government, Zvonko Mihajlović, said that the mobile signal was restored on Monday night at about 21:30 CET, but was not able to elaborate on how the network was allowed to go up again.

Kosovo administration to be decreased

Serbian Kosovo Minister Goran Bogdanović said that the size of the Kosovo administration must be decreased, but not drastically. He told daily Blic that there are 3,500 administrative officials in the 28 southern Kosovo municipalities, which is too much of a strain on the state budget, and said that three officials would be able to do most of the work needed in the ethnically pure municipalities of Kosovo.

Struggle for power in enclave continues

Officials of the local government in Štrpce that are financed by Belgrade will try to take back the municipal assembly in this Serb enclave in southern Kosovo. The premises were taken over recently by the local administration that was elected in the local elections organized in late 2009 by the Kosovo Albanian government in Priština.

Companies in Å trpce still without electricity

All structures in Å trpce, in southern Kosovo, that are owned by legal entities are still without an electric energy supply. Following the complete shutdown of the electricity supply to this Serb community, the post office, local co-op society, bank, and other companies are still without electricity.