Land Mines Scar Albania Years After Kosovo War
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DOBRUNA, Albania -- Seven years after the Kosovo conflict ended, NATO bombs continued to explode this fall in the mountains of northern Albania.
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A record area was cleared of landmines   last year, but casualties caused by the weapons rose by 11   percent to 7,328, with many of the victims children, a report   said on Wednesday.
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Serbian territory has 17 mass graves containing bodies of ethnic Albanians slain during Kosovo's 1998-99 war, a former interior minister said Friday, accusing current authorities of a cover-up.
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KIRUNA, Sweden  - Red lines on a map show cracks  in the ground menacing Kiruna, a model town in Sweden's frozen  north which may have to be moved as the world's biggest  underground mine is dug deeper beneath it.
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Sending a letter or finding a friend's house in Albania is not that simple as much of the country doesn't have street names thanks to petty bickering between intractable politicians.
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Aging planes, budget shortages, and ground casualties are a sharp reversal from the success of air power in Kosovo.
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collapse in the mine located near the town of Kure in the Black Sea province of Kastamonu. Earlier reports said a gas leak had sparked the fire.
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Red lines on a map show cracks in the ground menacing Kiruna, a model town in Sweden's frozen north which may have to be moved as the world's biggest underground mine is dug deeper beneath it.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - 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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Eleven years after the war ended, local political leaders are inflaming ethnic tensions and risking further instability -- or even possibly violence
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings &#151; along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings &#151; have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.
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BELGRADE, Oct 11 (IPS) - Ten years after the wars in the Balkans left a  quarter of a million dead, reconciliation moves are still waiting  for the 'truth' to come out first.
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VLORA, Albania, Jul 12 (IPS) - The building of a thermal power plant in Vlora  could reduce Albania's electricity deficit, but it would  also damage one of the country's most beautiful tourist  destinations. The local population is fighting to have the  factory built elsewhere.
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Two years ago, Croatia's prime minister dropped in on Sofia Skoric's home and munched on bread she had baked for him. It was a gesture intended to show that the hard feelings many harbored toward minority Serbs after the country's bloody 1991 war were gone.
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Five former prisoners have been given asylum by Albaniaâs government, but have received little else.
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BELGRADE, Serbia - Eight years after it was hit by NATO airstrikes, the former Yugoslav Defense Ministry still lies in ruins on Boulevard Knez Milosa, a reminder of what the Serbs consider unwarranted aggression by the West in the war over the Serb province of Kosovo.
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No plan for Kosovo will work until Serbs and Albanians lay history aside