Highway set to bring Albania and Kosovo closer
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The shortest route from Kosovo  to Albania&#39;s sparkling Adriatic coast makes a big dog-leg  through the long, deep glens of neighboring Macedonia.
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TIRANA, Albania, June 10 -- Evidence of Albania's love for the United States lined the road leading into this capital Sunday. U.S. and Albanian flags flew from lampposts. People wearing cardboard Uncle Sam hats milled in the streets. Oversize billboards and banners heralded the American president's...
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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 -- Kosovo took its first tentative steps yesterday on the road to becoming what would look very much like a sovereign nation: A UN envoy unveiled a blueprint for the future of the tense, ethnically divided Balkan province.
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Kosovo on Saturday inched closer to its historic declaration of independence, with a growing sense of excitement among its people and the European Union launching a police and judicial mission to smoothen the birth of the world's newest state.
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The Serbian minister for Kosovo said Friday that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on Feb. 17.
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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 ...Comment
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TIRANA, Jul 23 (IPS) - Tourism, one of the economic priorities of the  administration, will now be regulated by a new law.
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TIRANA, Albania, Jun 25 (IPS) - It was not so long ago that Albania, a tiny nation  of 3.1 million in the western Balkans remained off route for  hundreds of thousands of tourists who rushed to the Adriatic  coast for their summer vacations.
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Upgrading work to improve the safety of a notorious junction on the A9 in Perthshire is set to begin.
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BELGRADE -- Suspense gripped Serbia yesterday, a day before the unveiling of a UN 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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George Bush travels to Albania - the first US president to visit a country that has become a staunch ally.
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Called the Trans-Texas Corridor, it is the most ambitious highway project since the Eisenhower  administration introduced the interstate system in the 1950s, and experts are watching to see whether the plan could work in other states.
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Albanians have cast ballots in municipal elections seen as a gauge of democratic headway made in the former communist bastion as it bids for eventual European Union and NATO membership.
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U.S. President George W. Bush on Sunday  visits Albania which hopes to receive reassuring words on  backing for its NATO membership bid and the future independence  of breakaway Kosovo.
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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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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.Comment