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++ Trawling Pristina for a Good Fish Shop: Taunita: On Taunita’s bed of ice there is always a fresh stock of sea bass, sea bream, Kosovan carp and trout, salmon from Norway and calamari from Albania … ++ Snowboard Cup Lands in Kosovo: Brezovica will be hosting Kosovo’s first Snowboard Cross competition in March, bringing top athletes and a host of cultural events to the country’s slopes … ++ KFOR to Halve Troop Numbers in Kosovo: The NATO-led force in Kosovo, KFOR, has announced that it will reduce the number of its troops to 5,500 from 10,000 … ++ Kosovo Academy Seeks Delay to Census: Pristina’s Academy of Science and Arts, ASHAK, is demanding that the authorities postpone the census, planned for April, until there is more agreement on who should be counted … ++ Kosovo Condemns ‘Evil’ Killer of US Soldiers: Kosovo’s government and people have expressed shock and indignation over the killings of two US soldiers, shot dead at Frankfurt airport on Wednesday by a Kosovo Albanian allegedly born in Germany … ++ Kidnapped Kosovo Boy Returned Home: A five-year-old boy, kidnapped from his Pristina home on Thursday morning, has been returned to his parents by policé … ++

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