Albanian triumph, Serb anger as Kosovo secedes
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Kosovo Albanians will proclaim  independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in  the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia but cementing a bitter ethnic  frontline in the Balkans.
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Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova's party won general elections, boycotted by ethnic Serbs, but fell short of winning an overall majority to form a government by itself, estimates by independent observers showed.
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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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MALISEVO, Serbia-Montenegro In the words of one Albanian official, &quot;we&#39;re parting with 15 unfulfilled dreams.&quot;. Senior leaders from Kosovo and Albania, along with top UN and NATO officials, were among tens
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The West's decision to discard a U.N. resolution on the fate of Kosovo and pursue more talks will not stop the breakaway province's steady march to independence from Serbia, Kosovo politicians and analysts said.
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Kosovo is poised to become the world's newest state on Sunday amid growing excitement inside the province's ethnic Albanians but anxiety from Serbia and Russia.
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Ethnic Serbs react angrily across the Balkans to Kosovo's declaration of independence.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The United Nations has banned a self-styled Serb 'volunteer guard' from entering Kosovo, trying to calm Albanian tempers as Serbs remember a medieval battle at the heart of their claim to the province.
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Serbia vows to prevent secession; Russia may veto U.N. motion BELGRADE: Serbia's Albanian majority province of Kosovo has been put on the path to independent statehood by an international blueprint that redraws ...Comment
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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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Thousands of angry Serbs demonstrated in this northern Kosovo town Monday, chanting "This is Serbia" and "Down with America" a day after the territory's ethnic Albanian leadership declared independence from Serbia.
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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 last time Kosovo declared  independence in 1990 it went unrecognized and ignored. When it  splits from Serbia this weekend, it will have the support of  the West, which sees no way back.
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The estimated 120,000 Serbs left in the majority-Albanian province, many of them natives, are wondering whether to go or to stay.
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Kosovo&#39;s beleaguered Serb minority largely boycotted general elections yesterday, dealing a blow to international efforts to create multiethnic harmony in the province.
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PRISTINA, Kosovo International efforts to determine Kosovo&#39;s future suffered an apparent setback Sunday as the province&#39;s Serb minority largely boycotted parliamentary elections.
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Serbs set off sporadic explosions and torched a checkpoint between Serbia and Kosovo to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence and international recognition of the new nation