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, BELGRADE (Reuters) - - Serbian police on Tuesday detained a Kosovo Serb politician who said he was involved in a deadly shootout with Kosovo police 10 days ago and handed him to a Belgrade prosecutor, the country's interior ministry said in a statement. Tensions between Belgrade and Pristina have soared since Sept. 24, when around 30 armed Serbs barricaded themselves in a Serbian Orthodox monastery near the northern Kosovo village of Banjska, resulting in a shootout with Kosovo police.

Romania says it will send some 100 troops to bolster NATO's peacekeeping force in Kosovo after mounting tensions with Serbia.

The Serbian army has cut the number of troops stationed on the border with Kosovo by nearly half, top Serbian military officials said on Monday, denying U.S. and other reports of a mass military buildup in the wake of a shooting over a week ago that killed four people and raised fears of instability in the volatile region. Troop numbers are now at their “regular” level of some 4,500 soldiers, reduced from 8,350 in the wake of violence on Sept. 24 in northern Kosovo between heavily armed Serb gunmen and Kosovo police, the Serbian Army Chief of Staff Gen. Milan Mojsilovic said at ...

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's president on Sunday denied U.S. and other reports of a military buildup along the border with Kosovo, complaining of a "campaign of lies" against his country in the wake of a shootout a week earlier that killed four people and fueled tensions in the volatile Balkan region.

Serbian army was not involved in clashes with Kosovo police on Sept. 24, nor did it enter Kosovar territory, says Defense Minister Vucevic.