TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Oliver Ivanovic  a prominent Kosovo Serb politician  was killed in a brazen drive-by shooting on Tuesday that could reignite ethnic tensions in the region.
An EU-backed Kosovo court sentenced  Ivanovic  in 2015 to a nine-year jail term after it found him guilty of encouraging the killings of captured ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovska Mitrovica in April 1999.
In February last year  a Pristina appeals court quashed the sentence and ordered a retrial for  Ivanovic   who had been in detention since his arrest in January 2014 until the acquittal.
"Serbs are more afraid of Serbs than Albanians "  Ivanovic  -- a rare Kosovo Serb in that  he  spoke Albanian -- said at the time. "Serb people are afraid to raise their voice" against Belgrade's policy.
A former Serbian state secretary for Kosovo   Ivanovic  was a key interlocutor with NATO  the United Nations and later the EU after the war and was seen as backing dialogue with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.

SOLUTION: Oliver Ivanovic

PROBLEM: Stop Hating On Ed Sheeran's Fundraising Ad  Say Critics
Radi-Aid  a nonprofit group in Norway  was running its annual contest  asking folks to vote for the nominees. And the winner (or loser) for worst charity ad was a 5-minute spot for Comic Relief  in which pop star Ed Sheeran visits orphans in a slum in Liberia  talks to one homeless boy and asks viewers to help the children.
Maybe it's not such a bad idea to show a rich guy giving money to a kid on the streets  argues Tariro Mzezewa in an op-ed this week in The New York Times: "Ed Sheeran Raises Money For Liberia â And Is Promptly Shamed." Mzezewa  a staff editor for The Times' opinion section  writes: "The reaction to this video is not only overblown but also harmful to the people who need help and those who may want to offer it."
Others agree with Mzezewa  including Beyan Flomo Pewee  the Liberian founder and executive director of YOCEL  a nonprofit youth organization in Monsterrado  Liberia. "I personally think that the video was not really bad given  he  was raising funds and Liberia benefited "  he  wrote in an email to NPR. "Especially the closing part of the video where  he  demonstrated commitment to help the boys."
"Poor Ed Sheeran  he only wanted to help."
What's your perspective on Comic Relief's fundraising ad featuring Ed Sheeran? Share your thoughts on this thread on Twitter.

SOLUTION: Ed Sheeran

PROBLEM: A Jeremy Piven assault allegation has been "unequivocally" denied by the "Entourage" star while Hollywood's widening sexual harassment crisis brought forth a second actor's allegation against  Kevin Spacey  on Tuesday.
The claims halted production on  Spacey 's Netflix series "House of Cards" and prompted CBS to check into an actress' claim she was groped by Piven  The Associated Press reported.
Mexican actor Robert Cavazos wrote on his Facebook page that he encountered  Spacey  at the bar of London's Old Vic Theatre  where  Spacey  was artistic director  and the actor tried to fondle him against his will.
How  Spacey 's cast mates are reacting to the allegations remains to be seen. Robin Wright  who stars opposite  Spacey  as his wife  hasn't commented publicly  but her Twitter feed includes a number of posts backing social issues including female rights and education.
Netflix and "House of Cards" producer Media Rights Capital had already decided to end the series at the end of next season  its sixth  but on Tuesday they chose to pause the production  which is filmed in Baltimore  "to give us time to review the current situation and to address any concerns of our cast and crew."  Spacey  was not scheduled to work that day.
The move comes after actor Anthony Rapp came forward with  claims Spacey  made inappropriate sexual advances toward him in 1986  when he was 14.
 Spacey  responded by saying  he  doesn't remember the alleged encounter but if  he  acted the way Rapp alleges  "I owe  him  the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior."  He  also spoke publicly for the first time about being gay  which draw backlash from some observers as an attempt at deflection.
The fallout for  Spacey  also included the loss of an award  he  was going to get later this month by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The group says "it will not honor  Kevin Spacey  with the 2017 International Emmy Founders Award " which is to honor "an individual who crosses cultural boundaries to touch humanity."  Spacey  was to get it at a gala on Nov. 20 in New York City. Past recipients include Rhimes  Steven Spielberg  and J.J. Abrams.

SOLUTION:
Kevin Spacey