Kosovo’s new mayor takes up post peacefully in minority area as West warns against ethnic violence

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FILE - Kosovo police officers patrol on the bridge dividing southern Albanian and the northern, Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. A new mayor has been sworn in in northern Kosovo after a vote that was boycotted by the ethnic Serb minority which dominates the area. Erden Atic, who is from the Albanian majority, took up his post in the northern, Serb-dominated part of the divided city of Mitrovica on Friday, May 19, 2023 calling on citizens to cooperate. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, File) MITROVICA – A new mayor has been sworn in in...