In Kosovo, uneasy truce among neighbors
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The province's transition to functioning, multiethnic state, depends on whether whether Serbs and Albanians can do more than simply coexist.
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At a dusty market in the center of this eastern Kosovo town, Serbs and Albanians haggle good-naturedly over the prices of their onions and tomatoes.
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BRDO, Slovenia  - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Friday he was concerned that the U.N. Security Council remained deeply divided over Kosovo, saying the impasse there could be dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders insisted on independence as "the beginning and end" of their position in talks with international mediators on Wednesday on the future of the breakaway Serbian province.
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The leaders of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority urged Serbia on Thursday to stop trying to block independence for the breakaway province and instead look to a future of friendly relations between two sovereign states.
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Politicians from Kosovo and Belgrade begin a new round of talks on the province's future.
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On the eve of Kosovo's declaration of independence, can it escape its legacy of violence?
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As the U.N. nudges Kosovo toward what it calls âfinal statusâ and what Belgrade calls independence, many of northern Kosovoâs Serbs are threatening to break away.
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SKOROBISTE, Serbia  - In the sweltering heat of the Balkan summer, the stray dogs cannot even muster a bark as a NATO foot patrol makes its way through the hilltop village of Skorobiste in southwest Kosovo.
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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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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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The European Union will seek Monday to set aside divisions and examine ways to end the impasse over Kosovo&#39;s future status after Russia blocked attempts to put the province on the road to independence.
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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.