No quick exit for peacekeepers in Kosovo
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"We've got to get you out of here," President George W. Bush told the U.S. Army commander in Kosovo in 2001.
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"We've got to get you out of here,"  President George W. Bush told the U.S. Army commander in Kosovo  in 2001.
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Serbia&#39;s breakaway province of Kosovo  will be independent one way or the other so the United Nations  should hurry up and pass a formal resolution next month, U.N.  envoy Martti Ahtisaari was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Prolonged deadlock over the future of Serbia's Kosovo province could create instability in the region, put U.N. achievements at risk and threaten U.N. staff, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report.
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5 November 2004 -- Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister says time is running out for a peaceful solution to the standoff with insurgents in the western Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - UN police in Kosovo fired teargas and rubber bullets during clashes on Saturday with ethnic Albanians protesting against a UN plan they say falls short of full independence from Serbia.
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Eritrea has ignored a U.N.  deadline to grant peacekeepers on its border with Ethiopia  access to badly needed fuel, but despite the shortfall, a U.N.  official said U.N. troops are reluctant to leave because they  fear war could erupt.
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Last-chance talks on the future of  Serbia&#39;s breakaway province of Kosovo open in Vienna on  Thursday, without even the glimmer of a breakthrough in sight.
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Kosovo's PM Hashim Thaci hints that an independence declaration may be delayed, but does not say how long.
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JARINJE, Kosovo  - NATO peacekeepers were being sent to newly independent Kosovo's border with Serbia on Tuesday to defend frontier posts under attack by Serbs who oppose its secession.
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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.
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The Red Cross says not enough is done to locate those missing as a result of conflicts and other violence.
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Kosovo Albanian leaders  appealed for calm on Sunday after two people died in clashes  between police and Albanians protesting a U.N. plan they say  falls short of full independence from Serbia.
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Peacekeepers are mostly from former African Union corps since president has blocked troops from elsewhere
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Serbia and the Albanians of its  breakaway Kosovo province are unlikely to agree on the future  of the territory, United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari said as  the two sides began a final series of talks on Wednesday.
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VIENNA  - Kosovo sees no way forward in talks with Serbia and will move towards independence by the end of the year, the prime minister of the breakaway province said after another inconclusive round of negotiations here.All Serbia is talking about is the past Mediators from the United States, Russia and the European Union have until December 10 to try to bridge the chasm between Serbia's offer of autonomy for Kosovo and the 90-percent Albanian majority's demand for independence. "We are really looking for a way forward, but after this meeting we must conclude that we haven't found it," Agim Ceku told Austrian daily Der Standard Tuesday.  "All Serbia is talking about is the past," he said.
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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.