Kosovo parliament endorses Thaci-led coalition government
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Ethnic Albanian ex-guerrilla Hashim Thaci was elected prime minister of Kosovo on Wednesday and vowed the breakaway province would declare independence from Serbia within weeks.
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The UN agrees a November date for parliamentary and local elections to be held in Kosovo.
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Croatia's new parliament approved on  Saturday a centre-right coalition cabinet proposed by Prime  Minister-designate Ivo Sanader and dominated by his  conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).
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Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader won  parliament's backing on Saturday for his proposed centre-right  coalition cabinet, which faces the uphill task of speeding up  Zagreb's European Union membership talks.
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Kosovo's prime minister vows to protect minority rights as the province prepares to declare independence.
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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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A party that backs former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that it had enough allies in parliament to form a government.
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Ukraine's parliament overwhelmingly endorsed Yulia Timoshenko as the country's new prime minister, sealing a dramatic political transformation that swept away the ex-Soviet republic's pro-Russia regime and brought Western-leaning democratic reformers to power.
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PRISTINA, Serbia -- Kosovo's parliament elected a former rebel leader as prime minister Wednesday, a vote foreshadowing a declaration of independence from Serbia.
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Kosovo lawmakers named a former rebel commander as prime minister of their new government Friday, ignoring concerns that a UN war crimes tribunal might indict him.
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The EU approves a police and justice mission for Kosovo, which is poised to declare independence from Serbia.
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Serbia toughened its stand on Kosovo Tuesday as parliament decided that a planned new constitution would refer to the disputed province as an 'integral' part of Serbia, regardless of U.N.-led negotiations on ...
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Serbia's electoral commission has barred observers from the United States and Britain from monitoring its presidential election this month.One member of the commission said the decision late Thursday came because the two nations backed Kosovo's drive for independence from Serbia.The United States and most EU nations have backed independence for the southern Serbian province, which has been run by the United Nations since 1999, when a NATO air war forced Belgrade to end a crackdown against Kosovo Albanian separatists. Read more
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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 beleaguered Serbian minority in Kosovo spurned a legislative election yesterday, heeding claims by hard-line nationalists in Belgrade that voting would
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Kosovo's legislators were sworn in Friday at the first session of a new parliament that is widely expected to declare independence from Serbia early this year.
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As the dispute over Kosovoâs future nears a climax, the Serbian government has enlisted the support of some the worldâs best known statesmen â all of them dead.