Kosovo factory builds peace
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Nick Hawton reports from Kosovo on a factory where Albanians and Serbs are happily working together.
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In the first admission of its kind, a senior Hamas official disclosed on Saturday that the movement has a number of factories in the Gaza Strip for manufacturing various types of weapons.
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Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo can tell tales of property theft and other misdeeds stretching back decades, if not centuries. The U.N. is trying to right the most recent of those wrongs.
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On Sunday, Kosovo was born, becoming the 21st century's third new nation. The two other infant states, East Timor and Montenegro, present it with starkly contrasting examples of the challenges that lie ahead.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Hundreds of ethnic Albanians demonstrated in Kosovo on Saturday, trampling on effigies of the province's leaders and calling for an end to the diplomatic deadlock over its demand for independence.
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Suspense gripped Serbia on Thursday, a day before the unveiling of a U.N. proposal for Kosovo's future, a historic plan that officials say will map out a road to conditional nationhood for the bitterly contested province.
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Although security has improved significantly in Kosovo since March's deadly violence, the worst in the five years since the United Nations took over administering the ethnically-divided province, much work ...
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American flags flutter almost everywhere in Kosovo, a symbol of how Â through successive Democratic and Republican administrations Â the U.S. has long been a friend of this nation in the making.
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BELGRADE, Jul 25 (IPS) - Serbia has expressed particular satisfaction after  the United Nations failed to agree a new Security Council  resolution aimed at supervised independence for Kosovo.
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VENICE, Dec 10 (IPS) - There is hardly a trouble-shooter in the world  today more trusted than Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the Crisis  Management Initiative. Kosovo, the disputed southern province of  Serbia, is the latest challenge he has taken on.
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A decade after Serbia sent in troops to crush a rebellion, Kosovo prepared to declare independence on Sunday Â a bold and historic move to carve a new country out of a corner of Europe long bloodied by ethnic strife.
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A journey around Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province reveals its reliance on the outside world for aid and security, says Ray Furlong.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo is prepared to make a unilateral declaration of independence and is pressing the West to go ahead with a vote at the United Nations even if Russia is likely to veto the proposition.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic is attempting to overcome the stigma of "the Milosevic experience" by joining international peacekeeping operations and trying to hasten the healing process in the violence-prone Balkan region.
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Recognition of Kosovan independence gains momentum with the US and EU nations pledging support.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (IPS) - After several closed door meetings over the last  few weeks, the 15-member U.N. Security Council has failed to  reach agreement on a Western proposal for the creation of a new  independent nation state of Kosovo.
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At a dusty market in the center of this eastern Kosovo town, Serbs and Albanians haggle good-naturedly over the prices of their onions and tomatoes.