Kosovo's PM in independence nod
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Kosovo's prime minister gives the clearest indication yet that independence from Serbia will be declared on Sunday.
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Recognition of Kosovan independence gains momentum with the US and EU nations pledging support.
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The Serbian minister for Kosovo said Friday that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on Feb. 17.
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Kosovo's prime minister vowed Thursday to declare independence unilaterally if internationally brokered talks don't "open a way for us," staking out a tough position as the latest round of negotiations on the province's future began in Vienna.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia with Western backing the weekend after the February 3 Serbian presidential election if the nationalist candidate wins, political sources said on Wednesday.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Ethnic Albanian ex-guerrilla Hashim Thaci was elected prime minister of Kosovo on Wednesday and vowed the breakaway province would declare independence from Serbia within weeks.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 18 -- President Bush hailed the newly independent Kosovo and officially recognized it as a state and a "close friend" on Monday, expressing strong support for the new Balkans nation even as he rebuffed protests by Serbia and Russia.
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U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari  unveiled a plan on Friday to set Serbia's Kosovo province on a  path to independence, an outcome which Kosovo's majority  Albanians quickly applauded but Belgrade rejected.
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The prime minister of Kosovo, Agim Ceku, today said the province would make a unilateral declaration of independence on November 28, arguing attempts to secede from Serbia through the UN had failed.
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Key facts about Kosovo, which is preparing to declare independence from Serbia:
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Friday about 100 countries were ready to recognize the province's independence from Serbia as soon as it was declared.
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Kosovo Albanians will proclaim independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.
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PRISTINA, Feb 18 (IPS) - Kosovo has declared independence from Serbia amid  ecstatic celebrations in capital Pristina â and questions over  international recognition.
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A decade after Serbia sent in troops to crush a rebellion, Kosovo prepared to declare independence on Sunday Â a bold and historic move to carve a new country out of a corner of Europe long bloodied by ethnic strife.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku said on Friday the province should declare unilateral independence from Serbia on November 28, arguing that a Western bid to steer its secession through the United Nations had failed.
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Europe's major powers and the United  States said on Monday they recognized Kosovo's new  independence, as Serbs reacted with anger and some states  warned that its secession from Serbia set a dangerous  precedent.
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Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci tells reporters a declaration of independence is a matter of days away.