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05 February 2010 |

Simon Cottrell It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Feith: 'New Beginning' for Mitrovica
05 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has said the appointment of a team to create a new Serb-majority municipality in the divided city of Mitrovica could herald a 'new beginning'.

Georgieva, Ciolos Approved with New Commission
09 February 2010 |

The European Parliament has approved the new European Commission at its session in Strasbourg. Kristalina Georgieva and Dacian Ciolos are the new commissioners from Bulgaria and Romania, respectively.

Koricanske stijene: Awareness of Security
09 February 2010 |

A member of the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he spoke to Milorad Skrbic while investigating the murder at Koricanske stijene and "determined that he did not have any operational data about this event".



No Lull in Number of Kosovo Suicides

| 11 September 2008 |
 
Pristina
Pristina
Pristina _ There appears to be no respite in the high number of suicides in Kosovo, with 25 cases registered in the first six months of this year, the Kosovo Police says.

In a press release issued on Wednesday, the police said 25 people have committed suicide between January and July 2008, while another 105 people have attempted to take their life.

According to police statistics, most of the suicides happened in the Pristina region, while most of the victims are over 40 years old.

More than 400 suicides have been recorded in Kosovo between 2000 and 2007, of a population of 2 million.

This number has enormously increased since the 1998-1999 conflict.

Experts warn that economic stagnation is the source of most people’s depression.

According to the World Bank’s Poverty Assessment, some 35 percent of Kosovo’s population are “poor”, meaning they live on less than €1.42 per day.

Some 15 percent of the population live below the extreme poverty line of €0.93 per day.



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