Superpower divide over Kosovo widens
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The U.S. and the European Union's biggest powers quickly recognized Kosovo as an independent nation Monday, widening a split with Russia, China and some EU members strongly opposed to letting the territory break away from Serbia.
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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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VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal  - European Union states will seek to maintain a common front over the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, amid growing concern that it will declare independence unilaterally.
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The United States and Russia are butting heads over the breakaway region of Kosovo, which is awaiting a final U.N. recommendation on whether it will become an independent nation or remain part of Serbia.
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"Ask anybody the name of a Russian film director, composer or even rock group and they will struggle, but they can name five or six American directors"  BELGRADE, Serbia - As the dispute over Kosovo 's future nears a climax, the Serbian government has enlisted the support of some the world's best known statesmen - all of them dead. via New York Times
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Western nations pressed on  Monday for a U.N. Security Council decision within the next  week on independence for Serbia&#39;s Kosovo province, but council  president China said the big powers were as divided as ever.
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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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The U.N. Security Council failed  to bridge deep divisions over the future of Kosovo on Wednesday  and Western countries said they would take the lead in steering  the province to independence from Serbia.
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New talks to decide the future of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo got under way on Thursday with a conciliatory tone from both sides, but no breakthrough on their fundamental disagreement over its independence.
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UN Security Council talks fail to bridge the gap between the West and Russia over the future of Kosovo.
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PRISTINA, Serbia -- Kosovo took its first tentative steps yesterday on the road to becoming what would look very much like a sovereign nation: A UN envoy unveiled a blueprint for the future of the tense, ethnically divided Balkan province.
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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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Kosovo won the recognition of the United States and its biggest Western European allies, but was rejected by other states facing their own separatist movements.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo began  voting on Saturday for leaders likely to seek independence from  Serbia at U.N.-brokered talks that may be held next year.
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PRAGUE, Jan 26 (IPS) - The possibility of Kosovo gaining independence has  sparked a debate in minorities-ridden central-eastern Europe on  whether the Serbian region could set a precedent in prioritising  the right to self-determination over state sovereignty.
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These are not the only signs that some changes in the international community's policy toward Kosova might be in the offing.
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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.