Messy Kosovo breakaway stokes fear of partition
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Serbia is telling Serbs in Kosovo to ignore an Albanian declaration of independence early next year, raising the prospect of an ethnic partition of the breakaway province that the West has long ruled out.
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Serbia is telling Serbs in Kosovo to  ignore an Albanian declaration of independence early next year,  raising the prospect of an ethnic partition of the breakaway  province that the West has long ruled out.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There are some new faces in the Serb-controlled slice of northern Kosovo, the breakaway province where 2 million Albanians will declare independence from Serbia within days.
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Serbia cautioned its Balkan neighbors on  Sunday that independence for the breakaway Kosovo province  would destabilize the entire region and seriously undermine its  potential for economic growth.
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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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BRUSSELS, Feb 21 (IPS) - Wishing to emulate Kosovo's example, the  Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria is increasingly  rejecting the prospect of a unified state, just as the European  Union (EU) begins to step in.
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There is a silent land swap  under way in Kosovo, sifting Serb from Albanian under the noses  of Western powers who swore the breakaway province would never  be split along ethnic lines.
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Kosovo could soon be Europe's  newest independent state, but the Albanian majority in Serbia's  breakaway province still has to decide on a name, a flag and an  anthem.
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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 march to independence from Serbia, Kosovo politicians and analysts said.
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Serbia is telling Serbs in Kosovo to ignore an Albanian declaration of independence early next year, raising the prospect of an ethnic partition of the breakaway province that the West has long ruled out. via Reuters
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Suspense gripped Serbia on Thursday, a day before the unveiling of a U.N. proposal for Kosovo's future, a historic plan that officials say will map out a road to conditional nationhood for the bitterly contested province.
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Reaction is mixed on the streets of Belgrade to UN plans for Kosovo's partial breakaway, says the BBC's Nick Hawton.
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Ethnic Serbs react angrily across the Balkans to Kosovo's declaration of independence.
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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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Kosovo has asked NATO to  secure a large reservoir in the north out of concern Serbs  living there might cut vital water supplies if the Albanian  majority declares independence from Serbia within weeks.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There is a silent land swap under way in Kosovo, sifting Serb from Albanian under the noses of Western powers who swore the breakaway province would never be split along ethnic lines.
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo, Feb. 19 -- Serbs protesting Kosovo's declaration of independence torched two border posts manned by the United Nations along the northern border with Serbia on Tuesday as up to 2,000 protesters, some driving bulldozers, destroyed customs posts.