Former rebel commander becomes Kosovo&#39;s PM
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Kosovo lawmakers yesterday elected as prime minister a former rebel commander who recently was questioned by UN war crimes investigators.
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Kosovo Albanian politicians appointed a former guerrilla leader and war crimes suspect as prime minister on Friday in a parliamentary vote.
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The new U.N. administrator for Kosovo took control Sunday of the Serbian province, which has remained deeply divided along ethnic lines since the end of a 1999 war.
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The United Nations has ruled out blocking the appointment of an ex-guerrilla commander as prime minister of Kosovo, despite concern in the West that he could be charged with war crimes.
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On the eve of Kosovo's declaration of independence, its prime minister paid tribute Saturday to an ethnic Albanian family whose 1998 slaying became a rallying point for the province's struggle to break away from Serbia.
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Kosovo's rival parties struck a power-sharing deal Monday to form a government that is expected to declare independence from Serbia this year.
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Kosovo&#39;s Albanian-dominated parliament has elected former rebel commander Ramush Haradinaj as prime minister, ignoring Western concern that he may be indicted for war crimes any day now.
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The Kosovo parliament has elected ex-rebel leader Ramush Haradinaj as its new prime minister, despite war crimes allegations. Haradinaj, 36, is an ethnic Albanian.
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A pro-Kremlin former policeman has become president of Chechnya, according to partial results last night of an election held after a week of rebel attacks made a mockery of Moscow&#39;s claim to have pacified the republic.
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A former Taleban commander who switched sides is made governor of the Afghan town of Musa Qala.
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A former ethnic Albanian guerrilla commander widely believed to be under investigation for war crimes is being pushed to become prime minister of Kosovo, a prospect that is causing alarm among international ...
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VENICE, Dec 10 (IPS) - There is hardly a trouble-shooter in the world  today more trusted than Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the Crisis  Management Initiative. Kosovo, the disputed southern province of  Serbia, is the latest challenge he has taken on.
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United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari will hand over his plan for the future of Kosovo on Friday to Serb authorities braced for proposals that will set the breakaway province on a path to independence.
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Kosovo lawmakers named former rebel commander Ramush Haradinaj as prime minister of the new government Friday, ignoring concern that a U.N. war crimes tribunal might be moving to indict him.
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A top Serbian general accused of playing a role in the murder of hundreds of Kosovo Albanian civilians during a 1998-99 crackdown surrendered Thursday to the U.N. tribunal in the Hague.
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The chief Yugoslav war crimes prosecutor denounced Kosovo's former prime minister on Monday as a warlord and "a gangster in uniform" responsible for dozens of murders during the province's 1998-99 war with Serb forces.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo's prime-minister designate Hashim Thaci sealed agreement on Monday on a governing coalition expected to lead the Albanian-majority province to independence from Serbia early this year.