Kosovo leaders urge calm after clashes kill two
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Kosovo Albanian leaders  appealed for calm on Sunday after two people died in clashes  between police and Albanians protesting a U.N. plan they say  falls short of full independence from Serbia.
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called on rival Palestinian factions to end violence on Friday as gunmen loyal to his Islamist Hamas movement clashed with Fatah fighters on the streets of the Gaza Strip.
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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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Shaken Georgian leaders urged calm after Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead in a friend's apartment, a blow to President Mikhail Saakashvili's ambitious pledges to wipe out corruption and resolve two simmering separatist conflicts.
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Kosovo&#39;s ethnic Albanian leaders  insisted on independence as &quot;the beginning and end&quot; of their  position in talks with international mediators on Wednesday on  the future of the breakaway Serbian province.
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The European Union and the United Nations urged Kenya's feuding politicians on Saturday to agree a peaceful, democratic end to a violent political crisis that has killed 500 people since a disputed December 27 election.
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NATO stepped up patrols in  Kosovo on Thursday to head off possible violence as a decision  nears on the fate of Serbia's breakaway province.
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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas says two of its fighters died in clashes with Israeli forces in Gaza.
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A Serb boycott of Kosovo&#39;s general election increased tension between ethnic communities yesterday, raising the prospect that ethnic Albanian leaders may declare unilateral independence
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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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Envoys seeking compromise on the fate of Kosovo are pushing Serbs and ethnic Albanians to look for bridges over seemingly irreconcilable differences ahead of their first round of direct talks next week in New York.
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International envoys mediating in talks  on the future of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo on Monday will try  to stop them immediately coming to a standstill on the  independence issue, the European Union's envoy said.
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European Union foreign ministers appealed Friday for calm and expressed solidarity with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a school hostage crisis came to a violent end.
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The UN police commissioner in Kosovo resigns after clashes in Pristina which left two people dead.
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Nepal's prime minister issued an appeal for calm and promised to address the demands of ethnic Mahadhesis following nearly two weeks of violent protests in the south of the country.
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Belgrade's leader foresees outbreaks of violence if an independence declaration is rushed through
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 17 â After a day of rallies and violent clashes in Gaza between supporters of Hamas and Fatah, with both sides trying to send messages of strength following a presidential order for early elections, leaders called for calm this evening.