Border violence mars Kosovo's new start
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U.N. police pulled out of a Kosovan border post that was destroyed on Tuesday by Serbs who vow never to submit to the authority of Kosovo's Albanian government and its Western backers.
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The divided city of Mitrovica is a focus of tension as officials negotiate Kosovo's future status.
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CAMP BONDSTEEL, Serbia  - From the vantage point of a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter, the new road to Debelde cuts a tidy yellow line through tilled farmland on Kosovo's southern border with Macedonia.
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As the U.N. nudges Kosovo toward what it calls âfinal statusâ and what Belgrade calls independence, many of northern Kosovoâs Serbs are threatening to break away.
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"We have seen what happened in former Yugoslavia when the European Union did not take things in hand."  European Union leaders, worried that Kosovo's push for independence could trigger instability in the Balkans, were set to offer Serbia a fast-track route to joining the bloc at a summit on Friday. via Reuters
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's  general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky  endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N.  protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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Re-election of Boris Tadic as president of Serbia muddies waters for Kosovo's quest for independence
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Kosovo was poised to become the world's newest state on Sunday, albeit under the guidance of the European Union and the United States, as it prepared to declare independence from Serbia.
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border policemen and wounding 15 people in the first such attack in the city in seven months. war and annexed in a move not recognised internationally.
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Kosovo's new U.N. governor Tuesday pledged a drive to resolve the province's final status, warning the West had failed to read the frustrations that fueled ethnic riots in March.
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U.N. police pulled out of a Kosovan  border post that was destroyed on Tuesday by Serbs who vow  never to submit to the authority of Kosovo's Albanian  government and its Western backers.
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Kosovo took its first tentative steps on the road to becoming what would look very much like a sovereign nation Friday after a U.N. envoy unveiled a blueprint for the future of the tense, ethnically divided ...Comment
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Serbia's foreign minister has warned of possible renewed conflict in the Balkans if the province of Kosovo becomes independent without the Serbian government's approval, according to comments published Monday.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - UN police in Kosovo fired teargas and rubber bullets during clashes on Saturday with ethnic Albanians protesting against a UN plan they say falls short of full independence from Serbia.
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There is a silent land swap  under way in Kosovo, sifting Serb from Albanian under the noses  of Western powers who swore the breakaway province would never  be split along ethnic lines.
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In countries worried about their own secessionist movements, the response to Kosovo's declaration of independence has been wary
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Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of ethnic Albanians who demonstrated Saturday against a U.N. proposal for Kosovo they say does not go far enough in granting the province independence.