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  • 29
    Nov
    2012
    7:49am, EST

    UN court clears former Kosovo prime minister of war crimes charges

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    Kosovar Albanians celebrate in Pristina after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia cleared the former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj of war crime charges on Nov. 29, 2012.

    Koen Van Weel / AP

    Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj in a courtroom in The Hague on Nov. 29, 2012.

    Reuters reports — Ramush Haradinaj, a former guerrilla fighter in Kosovo who served briefly as prime minister, was acquitted of war crimes for a second time on Thursday, clearing the way for his return to mainstream politics but angering Serbia.

    The retrial verdict by a United Nations court in The Hague comes on the heels of the acquittal on appeal two weeks ago of top Croatian general Ante Gotovina, fuelling nationalist accusations in Serbia that the court is biased against them.

    The verdict, and Haradinaj's return to frontline campaigning, could undermine a new effort by the European Union to encourage Serbia and Kosovo to mend ties almost five years after the former southern Serbian province declared independence with the backing of the West. Read the full story.

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    Supporters of Ramush Haradinaj celebrate in Pristina on Nov. 29, 2012 after he was acquitted of murder and torture.

     

     

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    With these decisions it is surely looking more like the US-NATO war against Yugoslavia was, as was then argued by many -- a racist war. A war of anti-Serbian and anti-Yugoslavian racism!

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  • 28
    Nov
    2012
    7:12pm, EST

    Albania marks independence with giant cake and quarrels

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    Kosovo Albanian youth march under Albanian flags during celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Albania's independence in Pristina, Kosovo, Nov. 28, 2012.

    Arben Celi / Reuters

    Albania's special army forces march during a parade to celebrate the country's 100th anniversary of independence in Tirana, Nov. 28.

    Reuters reports — The foreign minister of neighboring Greece boycotted festivities on Wednesday marking 100 years of Albania's independence after its prime minister hailed a town over the border as "Albanian lands".

    Ethnic Albanians from across the region meanwhile celebrated in the national colors of red and black with a 14 ton cake and bushy mustaches to honor the founding fathers.

    Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha's remarks were in a text he sent to a museum on Tuesday evening to mark the 100th anniversary of Albanian independence from Ottoman rule and honor the founder of modern Albania, Ismail Qemali. Full story…

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    A chef cuts cake measuring 5920 square feet on the main boulevard of Tirana, Albania, Nov. 28.

    Arben Celi / Reuters

    Children eat cake measuring 5920 square feet prepared for the 100th anniversary of Albania's independence in Tirana, Albania, Nov. 28.

    Visar Kryeziu / AP

    Kosovo Albanians buys balloons in the main square decorated with Albanian flags in Pristina, Kosovo, Nov. 28.

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    Great..thanks to America's incompetent foreign policy..Albanians will have two votes in the UN!! What a joke..Albanians who are practicing Muslims are traitors to Christian Europe....their "Lands" should be divided by Greece,Bulgaria and Serbia!! No Muslim states in Europe..including "Turkey in Euro …

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  • 22
    Oct
    2012
    3:55pm, EDT

    Protesters clash with riot police in Kosovo

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    A supporter of opposition party Vetevendosje (Self-determination) hits at a police cordon during a protest in Pristina, Kosovo, on Oct. 22. Kosovo police fired teargas at the crowd attempting to storm the parliament in Pristina to protest against talks of Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic last week in Brussels, Belgium. The protest was called by the Kosovo Albanian nationalist movement Vetevendosje (Self-determination), which fiercely opposes the EU-sponsored talks with Serbia aimed at improving relations. Serbia refuses to accept Kosovo's 2008 decleration of independence and Vetevendosje insists that Pristina should not negotiate with Belgrade as long as it continues to claim sovereignty over its breakaway province.

    Visar Kryeziu / AP

    A Kosovo police officer and a protester spray each other with pepper spray, during a protest in the Kosovo capital Pristina on Monday, Oct. 22. Kosovo police in riot gear fired tear gas and used batons to disperse dozens of ethnic Albanians protesting a meeting between Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and Serbian leader Ivica Dacic. Protest early Monday was called by Self-Determination, a hardline opposition group that opposes any talks with Serbia.

    Hazir Reka / Reuters

    A protester from the Kosovo opposition party "Vetevendosja" (Self-determination) clashes with police forces during a demonstration in Pristina on Oct. 22. Police fired tear gas in Kosovo on Monday to disperse opposition activists demonstrating against a meeting last week in Brussels between Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic. Dozens of protesters and police officers were injured during the protest.

     From Reuters : PRISTINA - Police in Kosovo fired teargas and made dozens of arrests on Monday in clashes with opposition activists demonstrating against a new push by the European Union to improve ties between Serbia and its former southern province.

    The unrest followed a meeting last week in Brussels between Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and his Serbian counterpart, Ivica Dacic. Continue reading this story here.

     

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  • 7
    Sep
    2012
    4:41pm, EDT

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    Change of command ceremony in Pristina

    NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo stand at attention during a KFOR change of command ceremony in Pristina, Sept. 7, 2012. German General Volker Halbauer took command of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo. NATO deployed peacekeepers in Kosovo after a 1999 air campaign that ousted Serbian forces waging a crackdown on the pro-independence ethnic Albanian majority.

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    Birds of a feather flock together!

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  • 1
    Jun
    2012
    7:08am, EDT

    Kosovo Serbs and NATO troops clash in tense north

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    German army soldiers serving in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo guard a bridge near the town of Zvecan, Kosovo, on June 1, 2012. NATO-led peacekeepers have confronted stone-throwing Serbs seeking to prevent the international troops from removing their roadblocks in the tense north of Kosovo.

    Reuters reports — At least three Kosovo Serbs and a NATO soldier were wounded in a gunfight on Friday as peacekeepers tried to dismantle Serb roadblocks blocking traffic, a Reuters witness said. NATO troops fired tear gas and small arms and some protesters fired back with handguns.

    See pictures of several incidents of violence in Kosovo last year

    The troops, in armored personnel carriers, were confronted by hundreds of Serbs who pelted them with stones near barricades in the villages of Rudare and Dudin Krs outside the town of Zvecan in a Serb-dominated northern area of Kosovo. Read the full story.

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    Bojan Slavkovic / Reuters

    A German KFOR soldier aims his gun towards Kosovo Serbs during clashes in the town of Zvecan on June 1, 2012.

    Zveki / AP

    Kosovo Serbs carry an injured man near the town of Zvecan on June 1, 2012.

     

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    If or when the global economy totally crashes, and no one can afford to police the world as we do now, we will see more and more regional outbursts. People basically don't like each other and resort to violence to settle their differences. We are likely to see the same in the US some day.

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  • 12
    Feb
    2012
    2:15pm, EST

    9 die in Kosovo avalanche; child survives

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    Members of Kosovo Security Force (KSF) and fire fighters search for a missing person at the site where an avalanche hit houses in the village of Restelica, Kosovo, Feb. 12. At least nine people died and one is missing after an avalanche hit the village of Restelica in southern Kosovo on Feb. 11. Police said some 15 houses were swallowed up by the avalanche but only two were occupied at the time.

    AP

    Members of Kosovo Security Forces (KSF) and fire fighters search for a missing person at the site where an avalanche hit houses in the village of Restelica, southern Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 12. Rescuers pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both of her parents and at least seven of her relatives in the remote mountain village.

    NATO peacekeepers, deployed in Kosovo to end the armed conflict between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians in 1999, had been called in to help local authorities in the rescue operation, but were unable to land a helicopter in the blizzard.

    Rescuers — mostly local villagers using shovels — initially dug out the bodies of a married couple and their 17-year-old son. Six more bodies were discovered during the overnight and Sunday excavation.

    "No bigger tragedy has ever struck this region," said local district official Behar Ramadani. "Two brothers with their wives and children have been killed."

    --Reported by msnbc.com staff and wire services

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    Members of Kosovo Security Force (KSF) carry an avalanche victim in the village of Restelica, Kosovo, Feb. 12.

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  • 28
    Nov
    2011
    3:35pm, EST

    Kosovo Serbs clash with NATO troops during months-long standoff

    Zveki / AP

    Kosovo Serbs clash with German army soldiers serving under the auspices of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, as the NATO troops work to remove a roadblock near the village of Jagnjenica, Kosovo, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Two NATO soldiers were shot and wounded during clashes with Serbs on Monday after the peacekeepers fired rubber bullets and water canons and used heavy machinery to remove trucks and buses that were being used to block a main road in Kosovo's ethnically tense north. Kosovo's authorities decided to extend their authority into the areas under de-facto Serb rule, and NATO troops are trying to remove roadblocks after months of tension.

    Bojan Slavkovic / Reuters

    Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldiers from Germany and Austria fight with Kosovo Serbs during clashes in the village of Jagnjenica near the town of Zubin Potok November 28, 2011. Two NATO soldiers were wounded by gunfire on Monday in clashes with demonstrators in north Kosovo, NATO said, in the latest spasm of violence in a months-long standoff with Serbs who reject the country's 2008 secession from Serbia.

    Zveki / AP

    Kosovo Serbs clash with German army soldiers serving under the auspices of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.

     

    From the full story:

    Two German NATO soldiers were shot and wounded and eight Austrian peacekeepers hurt on Monday in the latest clashes with Serbs in the north of Kosovo who reject the country's 2008 secession from Serbia.

    Fighting broke out when NATO peacekeepers began removing roadblocks erected by Serbs in July after Kosovo's ethnic Albanian-dominated government tried to send border police to the mainly Serb north.

    Western diplomats warn the turmoil could cost Serbia official candidate status for membership of the European Union when the bloc meets on December 9.

    Read more...

    Related stories:

    • NATO in Kosovo moves to dismantle Serb barricade
    • Serbia, Kosovo talks deadlock to end soon: EU diplomat

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    There are about 50,000 Serbs left in the Kosovo, if that. They've never agreed to hand over their ancestral land to NATO occupiers. Yet, German soldiers are shooting at Serbs again - we've never thought a German boot will be stomping us again after Hitler and his Croat allies caused death of more th …

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  • 18
    Nov
    2011
    3:48pm, EST

    Hazir Reka / Reuters

    A worker walks in a construction site of a new shopping center in Pristina, Kosovo on Nov. 17, 2011. Experts say the forecasted growth for 2012 will not be sufficient to substantially reduce the 45% unemployment rate in Kosovo, which is one of Europe's poorest countries.

    Kosovo struggles under a 45% unemployment rate

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    Why bother to build expensive hotels and shopping centers when Unemployment rate is 45%? Spend money wisely on incubators, schools, universities, infrastructure, etc to attract investiment and future. Challenges are everywhere you turn.

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  • 20
    Oct
    2011
    12:02pm, EDT

    Tension mounts between Kosovo Serbs and NATO troops

    Reuters

    A Kosovo Force soldier from Germany sprays tear gas towards Kosovo Serbs during clashes in the village of Jagnjenica near the town of Zubin Potok October 20, 2011. NATO troops in Kosovo fired teargas to disperse hundreds of Serbs blocking a contested border crossing with Serbia on Thursday, and used armored vehicles in a bid to remove makeshift barriers.

    Marko Djurica / Reuters

    Kosovo Serbs sit on the street in front of Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldiers from Germany in the village of Jagnjenica near the town of Zubin Potok October 20, 2011. NATO troops in Kosovo (KFOR) fired teargas to disperse hundreds of Serbs blocking a contested border crossing with Serbia on Thursday, and used armored vehicles in a bid to remove makeshift barriers.

    By Natalia Jimenez, NBC News

    Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs took over a border crossing with Serbia early Thursday morning, leading to a confrontation with NATO troops who used teargas to disperse the crowds.

    AP Reports:

    Kosovo's NATO-led peacekeepers confronted crowds of angry Serbs on Thursday as they tried to remove Serb roadblocks in the volatile north of the country.

    For nearly three months, Kosovo Serbs have been blocking roads to stop the country's ethnic Albanian leadership from extending its control over the part of the country populated mostly by ethnic Serbs. The Serbs reject Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia and consider the region a part of the larger Serbian nation.

    After Kosovo Serb leaders refused NATO's demand to allow freedom of movement, the peacekeepers in riot gear moved in at dawn Thursday against hundreds of Serbs at roadblocks consisting of parked trucks, rocks, mud and logs.

    For complete story: NATO moves to remove Kosovo Serb roadblocks

    Darko Vojinovic / AP

    German army soldiers serving in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo move to remove a roadblock near the village of Jagnjenica, Kosovo, early Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo confronted angry Serb crowds manning their roadblocks as tensions escalated Thursday in the volatile north of the country. After Kosovo Serb leaders refused NATO's demand to allow freedom of movement, the peacekeepers in riot gear moved at dawn Thursday against hundreds of Serbs at roadblocks consisting of parked trucks, rocks, mud and logs.

    Darko Vojinovic / AP

    German army soldiers serving in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo clash with Kosovo Serbs on a roadblock near the village of Jagnjenica, Kosovo, early Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo confronted angry Serb crowds manning their roadblocks as tensions escalated Thursday in the volatile north of the country. After Kosovo Serb leaders refused NATO's demand to allow freedom of movement, the peacekeepers in riot gear moved at dawn Thursday against hundreds of Serbs at roadblocks consisting of parked trucks, rocks, mud and logs.

    Visar Kryeziu / AP

    Kosovo Serbs carrying Serb national flag protest against NATO's move to remove roadblocks in northern Kosovo, in the town of Gracanica on Thursday, Oct 20, 2011. Kosovo's NATO-led peacekeepers confronted crowds of angry Serbs on Thursday as they tried to remove Serb roadblocks in the volatile north of the country.

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  • 28
    Jul
    2011
    5:37am, EDT

    Ethnic tensions lead to deadly flare-up of violence in Kosovo

    Reuters

    Masked Serb extremists set the Serbia-Kosovo border crossing on fire in Jarinje on July 27. Ethnic Serbs set fire to a border crossing post in northern Kosovo on Wednesday after Kosovo's government said it had regained control of that station and one other, officials said. Oliver Ivanovic, Serbia's state secretary for Kosovo, said no one was hurt, but voiced concern about further violence.

    Armend Nimani / AFP - Getty Images

    Members of Kosovo police carry the coffin of their late colleague Enver Bajrami during his funeral ceremony in the village of Dubovc on July 27. The policeman was shot and killed on Tuesday in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica.

    Armend Nimani / AFP - Getty Images

    Kosovo Albanians attend a funeral ceremony for police officer Enver Zymberi on July 27.

    Reuters reports:

    A deadly flare-up of violence in Kosovo's Serbian-populated north has sent tensions with Belgrade soaring and prompted a stern intervention from the European Union.

    Kosovo, which has a 90 percent ethnic Albanian majority, sent special police units on Monday to take control of northern border crossings and enforce a ban on imports from Serbia -- retaliation for its block on Kosovo's exports.

    Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 but Belgrade does not recognize the move and the 60,000 Serbs who live in northern Kosovo still consider Belgrade their capital.

    One Kosovo police officer was shot in the head and died on Tuesday in a clash with local Serbs. On Wednesday, armed Serbs attacked and burned down the Jarinje border post and fired at members of NATO's KFOR peacekeeping force. Continue reading.

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