Former guerrilla Thaci elected Kosovo PM
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Ethnic Albanian former 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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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Friday about 100 countries were ready to recognize the province's independence from Serbia, which political sources say could be declared on Feb 17.
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TOKYO, Feb 11 (IPS) - During his four-day visit to Tokyo last week,  Albania's first democratically elected prime minister, Sali  Berisha, asked Japan to strengthen economic ties with his country  and support Kosovo's bid for independence from Serbia.
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A nationalist candidate won the first round of Serbia's presidential election on Sunday, setting up a run-off with the pro-Western incumbent that will shape Serbian ties with the EU after the expected loss of Kosovo.
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A former Serbian police general wanted for more than three years was arrested in Montenegro on Sunday on charges of murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said.
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A combative veteran politician representing ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's interests was chosen as premier Monday, a move that could put him on a collision course with the military that ousted Thaksin in a 2006 coup.
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A former rebel leader was elected Kosovo's prime minister Wednesday, vowing that the province is only weeks away from independence and calling on Serbia to give up its claim to the territory
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Kosovo's prime minister on Wednesday dismissed Serbia's fierce opposition to the province's drive for independence, insisting that decades of bloodshed in the Balkans are over and Serbs will never dare to invade Kosovo again because they have "no courage."
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United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari on Friday handed to Serb authorities his plan for the future of Kosovo that will set the breakaway province on a path to independence.
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Kosovo's former prime minister went  on trial at the U.N. tribunal on Monday on war crimes charges  related to his time as a guerrilla leader in the war against  Serb forces between 1998-99.
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Serbia's pro-Western President Boris  Tadic won re-election on Sunday against nationalist challenger  Tomislav Nikolic in a vote that will determine the country's  future ties with the European Union.
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The narrow re-election victory of Serbia's pro-West president, Boris Tadic, drew EU applause Monday but piled pressure on an unstable government in Belgrade as Kosovo prepares to declare independence.
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Kastriot Sadiku has a confession: Like a good Muslim, he was near a mosque when Kosovo declared independence. But like a good Kosovar, he was just around the corner, sipping suds at his favorite pub.
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UN prosecutor Carla Del Ponte on Monday told judges that former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj was a warlord and a gangster, as he went on trial for war crimes.
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Kosovo's prime minister on Wednesday dismissed Serbia's fierce opposition to the province's drive for independence, insisting that decades of bloodshed in the Balkans are over and Serbs will never dare to ...
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Kosovo Albanian politicians appointed a former guerrilla leader and war crimes suspect as prime minister on Friday in a parliamentary vote.
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Boris Tadic will be sworn in as  president of Serbia on Friday, two days before Kosovo declares  independence in Serbia's most traumatic moment since it was  bombed by NATO in 1999 to end ethnic-cleansing in the province.