Ex-rebel leader elected Kosovo PM
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A former rebel commander who was questioned by war crimes investigators is voted in as Kosovan prime minister.
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The Kosovo parliament on Friday elected former rebel leader Ramush Haradinaj, an ethnic Albanian, as prime minister of the UN-controlled southern Serbian province.
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The Kosovo parliament has elected ex-rebel leader Ramush Haradinaj as its new prime minister, despite war crimes allegations.
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Former finance minister Shaukat Aziz has been elected as Pakistan&#39;s prime minister in a rubber-stamp parliamentary vote boycotted by the entire opposition.
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A former rebel leader was elected Kosovo's prime minister Wednesday, vowing that the province is only weeks away from independence and calling on Serbia to give up its claim to the territory.
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PRISTINA, Feb 18 (IPS) - Kosovo has declared independence from Serbia amid  ecstatic celebrations in capital Pristina â and questions over  international recognition.
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Nepal's former rebel Maoists won two more posts in an expanded cabinet announced Thursday, which followed an agreement to end a months-long political crisis in the Himalayan nation.
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Serbia's presidential election paves way for response to Kosovo's declaration of independence
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Kosovo counted votes for a new parliament on Sunday after an election that exposed Albanian apathy and defiance from the Serb minority in a province taken over by the United Nations five years ago.
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A former rebel leader appeared headed to easy victory Monday in the first elections in Aceh province since the government and the separatists signed a peace deal in the tsunami-ravaged region last year, according to a sampling of votes tallied by two respected local pollsters.
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Serbia on Saturday demanded the UN administrator of Kosovo annul the election of the province&#39;s new prime minister, a former rebel leader accused by Serbs of war crimes.
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Serbia's pro-Western President Boris  Tadic won re-election on Sunday against nationalist challenger  Tomislav Nikolic in a vote that will determine the country's  future ties with the European Union.
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A former ethnic Albanian guerrilla commander widely believed to be under investigation for war crimes is being put forward to become prime minister of Kosovo, a prospect that is causing alarm among ...
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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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Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova has said his pro-independence party has won Saturday's general elections.
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THE HAGUE -- Kosovo's former prime minister has "blood on his hands," the UN chief prosecutor said yesterday at the start of a war crimes trial on charges stemming from the war against Serb forces in 1998-99.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Ethnic Albanian former guerrilla Hashim Thaci was elected prime minister of Kosovo on Wednesday and vowed the breakaway province would declare independence from Serbia within weeks.