Ex-Rebel Leader Set to Become Kosovo PM
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The former rebel leader who was set to become Kosovo's new prime minister on Friday was recently interviewed by U.N. war crimes investigators, raising fears among some western officials that he could be indicted for his role in the 1998-99 war in former Yugoslavia.
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Nepal's government is due to hold talks with former Maoist rebels, after they said they were leaving the cabinet.
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A Serbian leader accused of war crimes at The Hague is to head his party's list in the January general election.
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Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci tells reporters a declaration of independence is a matter of days away.
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Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders hold  talks in Vienna on Saturday for what could be the last time  before a U.N. plan offering the breakaway province of Kosovo  independence goes to the U.N. Security Council.
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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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PARIS, March 5 -- An international war crimes prosecutor said Monday that former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj was a gangster in uniform who committed "cruel and violent crimes" during his guerrilla army's war against Serb forces in 1998-99.
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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 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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"The EU will be ready to give a formal go-ahead to the mission a few days after the election"  The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday that the EU will sanction the dispatch of a police force to Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo after the country's presidential election. via RIA Novosti
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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.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A former separatist rebel appeared set on Tuesday to become the next governor of Aceh after a landmark election in the Indonesian province battered by decades of conflict and a horrific tsunami
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The EU's foreign policy chief is to visit Kosovo and Serbia to urge talks on a UN plan giving Kosovo self-rule.
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Final talks between Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders over Kosovo's future begin on Wednesday.
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Kosovo's former prime minister went  on trial at the U.N. tribunal on Monday on war crimes charges  related to his time as a guerrilla leader in the war against  Serb forces between 1998-99.
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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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A former rebel commander who was questioned by war crimes investigators is voted in as Kosovan prime minister.