Kosovo's cadets forge ahead
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BBC News visits Pristina's fledgling military academy to meet the cadets training to lead Kosovo's future forces.
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President Ibrahim Rugova's pro-independence party looked set yesterday to keep its dominance in Kosovo after weekend elections which were marred by an ethnic Serb boycott.
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The European Union must be ready to  guide Kosovo on an unstoppable path to independence after the  U.N. Security Council failed to agree on the Serb province's  future, the incoming EU presidency said on Thursday.
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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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Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci tells reporters a declaration of independence is a matter of days away.
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US soldiers stationed in Kosovo exercised their right to vote in large numbers ahead of the opening of polls in their homeland, an army captain said.
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NATO troops and U.N. police secured Kosovo's northern borders late on Tuesday, facing down a challenge by ethnic Serbs who ransacked the crossings in protest at Kosovo's independence.
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A confidential EU report on Kosovo's future reveals the bloc is well-advanced in planning its mission to replace the U.N. administration, despite a political deadlock over a U.N. plan to grant the disputed province supervised statehood.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's  general election on Saturday will be the first step in a tricky  endgame to settle the fate of the Serbian province, now a U.N.  protectorate in the heart of the Balkans.
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European Union leaders are set to  offer Serbia a fast track to candidacy for membership in the  bloc and pledge to step up preparations for a police mission to  stabilize Kosovo, a draft statement for Friday's EU summit  said.
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NATO forces will deploy to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Kosovo to take part in an operational rehearsal to ensure NATO troops and the Reserve Forces Headquarters are prepared to respond to a crisis in the ...
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The last time Kosovo declared  independence in 1990 it went unrecognized and ignored. When it  splits from Serbia this weekend, it will have the support of  the West, which sees no way back.
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MALISEVO, Serbia-Montenegro In the words of one Albanian official, &quot;we&#39;re parting with 15 unfulfilled dreams.&quot;. Senior leaders from Kosovo and Albania, along with top UN and NATO officials, were among tens
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There are some new faces in the Serb-controlled slice of northern Kosovo, the breakaway province where 2 million Albanians will declare independence from Serbia within days.
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WIESBADEN, Germany  - European Union and NATO defense chiefs on Thursday mapped out plans for steering the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo through a tense period while ensuring a future exit strategy for their armies.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (IPS) - Questions relating to Kosovo's future status  will almost certainly be the key area of focus for diplomats  dealing with the Balkans this year.
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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.