Serbs mark Kosovo battle under threat of secession
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GRACANICA, Serbia  - Serbs in Kosovo on Thursday marked an epic medieval battle central to their claim to the province, testing the patience of the Albanian majority already angry at delays to its demand for independence.
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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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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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GRACANICA, Kosovo, Feb 18 (IPS) - As Pristina is abuzz with crowds of Albanians  celebrating the declaration of independence, Kosovo Serbians seem  mostly gloomy about what the future holds.
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CAMP BONDSTEEL, Serbia  - From the vantage point of a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter, the new road to Debelde cuts a tidy yellow line through tilled farmland on Kosovo's southern border with Macedonia.
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BELGRADE, Serbia - Eight years after it was hit by NATO airstrikes, the former Yugoslav Defense Ministry still lies in ruins on Boulevard Knez Milosa, a reminder of what the Serbs consider unwarranted aggression by the West in the war over the Serb province of Kosovo.
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Serbia's foreign minister was to press his country's claim to Kosovo with European lawmakers on Wednesday, one day after NATO peacekeepers intervened to defend two border posts from angry Serbs.
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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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Serbia swore in President Boris Tadic on Friday two days before Kosovo proclaims independence, in the country's most traumatic moment since it was bombed by NATO in 1999 to end ethnic cleansing in the province.
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Serbia will never surrender Kosovo to the breakaway province's ethnic Albanian majority or trade its territory for European Union or NATO membership, Serb leaders said on Tuesday.
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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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Serbia's leader urged Kosovo's Serbs to stay put after ethnic Albanians declare independence, pledging Wednesday that Belgrade will never recognize the province's statehood.
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In countries worried about their own secessionist movements, the response to Kosovo's declaration of independence has been wary
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Serbia may be quietly exploring the  idea of partitioning the breakaway province of Kosovo along  ethnic lines, a Kosovo Albanian newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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BELGRADE, Feb 18 (IPS) - Frustration over the Sunday declaration of  independence of Kosovo is spreading all over Serbia, with protest  rallies being organised around the country.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Hundreds of ethnic Albanians demonstrated in Kosovo on Saturday, trampling on effigies of the province's leaders and calling for an end to the diplomatic deadlock over its demand for independence.
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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.