When the comedy is lost in translation Jun 22, 2008
A scene from "Knocked Up," which was directed by Judd Apatow and was a hit last year in the United States. More than 60 percent of its business in theaters was domestic. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
'Sesame Street' unites Kosovo youngsters Jun 22, 2008
For four years now, a Sesame Street workshop has produced a local version of the acclaimed US children's television show, known as "Rruga Sesam" in the Albanian language and "Ulica Sezam" in Serbian ... Both Albanian and Serb children who watched the show "expressed greater willingness to help" youths from the opposite ethnicity than those who did not, according to the research by the Sesame workshop and its local partners ... Jon Mulliqi, an Albanian boy, likes "Sesame Street" so much that he... (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Newton's English Language Learners live between two cultures Jun 18, 2008
Akan 1 Albanian 18 American Sign Language 2 Amharic. 2 Arabic. (Newton Tab, MA)
Tension mounts as Kosovo Constitution takes effect Jun 16, 2008
The Constitution envisions handing over executive power to the majority ethnic Albanian government from the United Nations, which has administered the province for the past nine years after NATO intervened in 1999 to halt Slobodan Milosevic's repression of ethnic Albanians ... But even as Kosovo's president, Fatmir Sejdiu, on Sunday lauded the "historic" launching of the document ahead of what was expected to be a low-key ceremony in Pristina, the introduction of the Constitution threatened to... (International Herald Tribune)
Kosovo's new constitution goes into force after 9 years of U.N. administration Jun 15, 2008
Kosovo's constitution went into force Sunday, handing the newly independent nation's ethnic Albanian government power after nine years of U.N. administration ... But it threatens to worsen ethnic tensions between Kosovo's Albanians and Serbs ... Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders are to mark the constitution in a low-key ceremony in Pristina later Sunday that will open with Kosovo's newly approved, instrumental anthem. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
Kosovo prime minister's home attacked, police say Jun 7, 2008
Relations between ethnic Albanian political parties in Kosovo have been marked by tension and rivalry ... Thaci, the former political head of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels, the Kosovo Liberation Army, is regarded as the key figure in pushing for Kosovo's independence from Serbia. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Guards prevent "attack" on house of Kosovo PM Jun 7, 2008
Thaci is an ethnic Albanian former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which fought a guerrilla war against Serb forces in the province in 1998-99. NATO bombed in 1999 and drove out Serb forces to halt the killing and ethnic cleansing of Albanian civilians. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Election violence deals setback to Macedonia Jun 2, 2008
Macedonia's aspirations for joining the European Union and NATO suffered a heavy blow Sunday after parliamentary elections in the poor Balkan country turned bloody, with one person shot and killed and nine wounded in the country's ethnic Albanian areas. The vote had been seen as a test of Macedonia's democratic credentials as it seeks to join the EU, the world's biggest trading bloc, while overcoming a recent rebuff in its attempt to join NATO. Instead, Macedonia emerged as a new problem child... (International Herald Tribune)
Macedonians vote in shadow of violence Jun 1, 2008
His government, which will likely have to include a partner from the ethnic Albanian minority parties, will be asked to get NATO accession back on track, start EU membership talks and calm tensions after weeks of violence among rival Albanian factions ... It was divided over reforms and rights for the country's 25 percent Albanian minority before it was dealt a final blow by the NATO snub ... The West is worried about instability in the Balkans so soon after Kosovo Albanians seceded from Serbia... (International Herald Tribune)
Menace and unease in ethnic Albanian areas before Macedonia's early election May 31, 2008
Machine gun and grenade attacks against political offices and an apparent assassination attempt have marred the campaign for Macedonia's upcoming national election one of the most vitriolic among the country's ethnic Albanian minority ... Ethnic Albanian rebels fought a brief insurgency in 2001 against Macedonian government forces ... But violence in this year's campaign has been almost exclusively among Albanians, who make up about a quarter of the 2. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Clint Eastwood film shut out... May 26, 2008
Other winners included Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time Palme d'Or recipients, who took the screenplay award for "The Silence of Lorna," about the struggles of a young Albanian immigrant in Belgium. Sandra Corveloni, who played a working-class mother in S. (The Drudge Report)
Serbia coalition talks hang on EU dilemma May 24, 2008
The make-or-break issue is whether Serbia pursues EU membership or shelve its bid until the EU stops backing the independence of Kosovo, whose Albanian majority seceded from Serbia three months ago with EU backing. Senior Socialist official Branko Ruzic said talks with the nationalists were on ice until his party got a clear answer on the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, a pact offered to Serbia by the EU as a sweetener just before the election. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Kosovo riots 'were orchestrated' May 22, 2008
Bridges over the Ibar river that divides the Serb north from the ethnic Albanian south were closed. Lethal means. (Yahoo News -- Kosovo)
Blood on the beach May 20, 2008
As usual, we're in Li;ge, the brothers' uncharismatic hometown, but they enter new territory with their title character, a pretty, plucky but ultimately inscrutable Albanian immigrant played by Arta Dobroshi. "Lorna's Silence" proceeds through a series of tricky narrative revelations and switchbacks, the first coming when we realize that this likable and hardworking young woman, avidly saving money to open her own snack bar, is also involved with a low-rent local mobster (Fabrizio Rongione) in a... (Salon)
Late innings have been woeful May 15, 2008
By albanian braves fan ... By albanian braves fan ... By albanian braves fan. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Yes we Cannes! Indiana Jones meets "Blindness" May 14, 2008
If Desplechin is an obvious Palme d'Or candidate, that goes double for the Dardenne brothers, Belgium's masters of tight-focus, hardscrabble realism, who've already won it twice (in 1999 for "Rosetta" and in 2005 for ) and are back with "Lorna's Silence," a crime drama about an Albanian immigrant, a snack bar and a murderous mobster. "Il Divo," writer-director Paolo Sorrentino's biopic of legendary Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, will no doubt be a big deal throughout Western Europe and... (Salon)
A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens May 14, 2008
Their new film, "Le Silence de Lorna," is about an Albanian woman living in Belgium who gets mixed up with a mobster. Also returning to the main competition is the Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose earlier Cannes favorites include "Distant" (2003) and "Climates" (2006). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Spielberg joins Cannes regulars Eastwood, Allen, Soderbergh for 61st Riviera glamor fest May 13, 2008
This time, the Dardennes present "Lorna's Silence," the tale of an Albanian woman caught up in an elaborate underworld crime plot in Belgium. With international press mobbing the French Riviera resort, there is no better spotlight than Cannes for a film to gain global attention, said Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Co. is premiering Allen's romantic drama "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" with Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
And funny with it May 12, 2008
Prostitutes in Lyon, France, sent a fax to the government to complain that they are losing business to Eastern European women who are protected by the Albanian mafia,' said Fey in one typical segment. First of all, how rough-looking are these French prostitutes that all their customers are running to the Albanians. (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
LETTERS: NCT, May 10, 2008 May 11, 2008
The U.S. has supported the PLO/Fatah Muslim terrorists in the West Bank, the Kosovo Liberation Army Muslim terrorists in Kosovo, the Albanian Muslim terrorists and now the government of Nouri al-Maliki, of Iraq, who is closely allied with Iran which is our deadly enemy. The U.S. funds the Palestine "security forces," a euphemism for the collection of terrorist thugs from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Islamic Jihad, Force 17 and various other PLO/Fatah militias. (North County Times)
Ethnic politicsSerbian poll reinforces Kosovo's Albanian-Serb divide May 10, 2008
Ethnic Albanians showed their anger at the Serb vote going ahead ... " Displaced communities One of the many strange features about this election is that they are being organised according to the old, pre-1999 municipal boundaries. Serbian politicians have been campaigning in Kosovo's Serb areas So Mr Stojanovic is standing for a position on the Pristina city council, which will sit in exile in Gracanica - a parallel institution to the Albanian city council of Pristina elected in the Kosovan... (BBC News -- Europe)
How brothers fell out Apr 11, 2008
Albanian socialism, cited by Mr Meles as his inspiration, is hardly associated with flexibility, after all. "I don't know whether it's cultural, religious or historical. All I know is that room for manoeuvre and compromise don't seem to feature in politics in the Horn," remarks an aid worker who has worked in both areas. (BBC News -- Africa)
"Not You! You!!!" Apr 10, 2008
This is a separate people, with a different culture (Albanian) and its own religion (Islam) ... The Albanian Kosovars make up 90% of the citizens of the new state, which has a population of two million. (Center for Research on Globalization)
Muslim preachers take to TV Apr 6, 2008
Execs at Al-Iqraa, for example, have already launched Albanian and Thai services. Work is also under way on an English-language satcaster, while Al-Mutawee, who is also Al-Iqraa's topper, was in Hong Kong recently to explore opening up a Chinese version of the channel. (Variety)
Kosovo leader cleared after troubled trial Apr 4, 2008
Ramush Haradinaj, who briefly served as prime minister of Kosovo three years ago, was found not guilty of the murder, persecution, rape and torture of Kosovo Serb civilians and some ethnic Albanians. The crimes were said to have been carried out by men under his command in 1998, when the rebels fought to free their largely ethnic Albanian region from Serbian rule. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
What Would Bismarck Do? Apr 1, 2008
Last month, an Albanian government in Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia ... After World War II, the Albanian population in Kosovo grew while the Serbian population gradually shrank ... It is important to understand that there are no Kosovars, only Albanians and Serbs who live in Kosovo. (The American Conservative)
Yevgeny Primakov, former prime minister of Russia, supports partition of Kosovo Mar 27, 2008
Ninety percent of the population of Kosovo is Albanian, and the province declared independence from Serbia on Feb. 17 with Western support ... The Albanians, the West and the Serbs have all insisted for their own reasons in the past that partition is not an option, although some Western diplomats suspect it has always been on the Serb agenda as a "Plan B." ... Primakov has warned in the past of the impact Kosovo independence might have on the situation in the region, with "Albanians becoming... (International Herald Tribune)
Serbia proposes dividing Kosovo along ethnic lines Mar 25, 2008
Serbia proposed dividing newly independent Kosovo along ethnic lines on Monday, a move that was immediately rebuffed by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership in Pristina ... Analysts said it was a largely symbolic gesture as the ethnic Albanian leadership in Pristina has vowed never to accept partition, while European countries and the United States would reject it at the United Nations Security Council ... "We want to help create cooperation between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo - not... (International Herald Tribune)
Visiting Albania Mar 23, 2008
The Durr s Kavaj strip is the most popular beach resort for Albanians, but cleaner and more attractive beaches can be found between the towns of Vlora and Saranda, further south ... It will be appreciated and if you're lucky you may get an invitation to an Albanian home where you will be plied with sweets, liqueurs and Turkish coffee ... Visits are an important part of Albanian culture and if you get to try this then you can really feel that you have have got under the skin of this mysterious... (Suite101.com)
Serbia's president denies Serbia wants to divide Kosovo Mar 21, 2008
In Kosovo, a province that is mostly ethnic Albanian, Serbs clashed with U.N. and NATO troops in the northern, Serb-held town of Mitrovica, on Monday, and a U.N. policeman was killed and dozens of people were hurt ... Predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo has been under U.N. control since 1999, when NATO launched an air war to stop former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
Area schools celebrate the language of love - French Mar 20, 2008
I love the culture and learning about it, said Shkurti, who also speaks Italian and Albanian. It s the language of love, so you ve got to know it. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
UN accuses Serbian officials of encouraging Kosovo riots Mar 19, 2008
Tensions remained high in Mitrovica, a town divided between ethnic Albanians and Kosovo Serbs who, along with Belgrade, insist that Kosovo's independence is illegal ... Kynal is the first policeman killed in such violent clashes in Kosovo since 1999, when the United Nations took control of the territory from Serbia after a NATO air war halted a Serbian crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatists ... The UN withdrawal could fuel the Serbs' desire to split from the largely ethnic Albanian Kosovo... (International Herald Tribune)
Serbia appeals to nations not to recognise Kosovo Mar 19, 2008
In a statement obtained by Reuters and due to be made public on Wednesday, the three countries said their decision was based on "thorough consideration" and noted the importance of protecting the Serb minority in the overwhelming ethnic Albanian territory. Today in Europe. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Kosovo Serb rioters clash with UN and NATO forces Mar 18, 2008
Mitrovica is divided between Albanians who live south of the Ibar River and Serbs who live to the north. The city has long been a flash point for violence in Kosovo, which has been under UN administration since 1999 after NATO intervened to halt Slobodan Milosevic's repression of ethnic Albanians, who make up 95 percent of the territory's population ... Over the past few weeks, Serb protesters have tried to undermine Pristina's authority in the north by burning UN border posts, disrupting rail... (International Herald Tribune)
NATO holds line in Kosovo after riots Mar 18, 2008
The violence was the worst since Kosovo's Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia on February 17 and highlighted the risk of the new state's partition along ethnic lines ... The main bridge over the Ibar river that divides the Serb north from the Albanian south was closed, with razor-wire and upturned garbage containers blocking the way ... About 120,000 Serbs remain in Kosovo among 2 million ethnic Albanians. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Serbia rejects Kosovo trade-off Mar 16, 2008
Mr Kostunica's comments come a week after ethnic Albanian and Serbian leaders held their first face-to-face meeting since 1999 on the long-term future of the breakaway Serbian province ... The United Nations special envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, said Serbia was willing to give everything but independence, while the majority ethnic Albanians in Kosovo wanted nothing but independence ... Nato bombing forced the Serb army out of Kosovo in 1999, after Serbia's crackdown on ethnic Albanians had... (Yahoo News -- Serbia & Montenegro)
Kosovo Serbs seize courthouse Mar 16, 2008
Serbs had staged rallies outside the court for several weeks, preventing ethnic Albanian court employees from crossing the bridge over the Ibar River that divides Mitrovica into a Serb-run north and an ethnic Albanian south ... In February, some 150 Kosovo Serb police officers were suspended for refusing to take orders from the ethnic Albanian authorities in Kosovo's capital, Pristina. (BBC News -- Europe)
Albania rocked by huge explosions Mar 16, 2008
At least five people have been killed and more than 240 injured in a series of huge explosions at an arms dump near the Albanian capital, Tirana ... Juela Mecani, a spokeswoman for Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, said a number of homes near the depot had been "completely destroyed", and that the authorities had evacuated all neighbouring villages ... The military experts at the base where the blasts occurred were being assisted by employees of a US company contracted by Nato to help the... (BBC News -- Europe)
In pictures: Albania arms blasts Mar 16, 2008
A series of explosions erupted from an arms depot north of the Albanian capital, Tirana. Plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the scene of the blasts, which were loud enough to be heard dozens of kilometres away. (BBC News -- Europe)
Albania ammunition dump blast injures 243, kills 5, damages airport Mar 16, 2008
A massive explosion at an Albanian army ammunition dump near Tirana Saturday killed at least five people and injured 243, including many children, authorities said ... The destruction of ammunition at the dump was being carried out by an Albanian company that had been subcontracted by a U.S. company based in South Carolina, Berisha said, adding that there had been no foreign citizens in the area ... Footage from Albanian television showed a massive ball of fire shooting up from the site, while... (International Herald Tribune)
Kosovo Serbs storm UN court in northern Kosovo Mar 15, 2008
The crowds have prevented international and ethnic Albanian judges from returning to work at the court ... "We want to cooperate with all non-Albanians and all those who do not recognize independent Kosovo." ... Predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo has been under U.N. control since 1999, when NATO launched an air war to stop Solobodan Milosevic's crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. (International Herald Tribune)
Blasts wound more than 150 at Albania army base Mar 15, 2008
More than 150 people were wounded by several explosions at an Albanian army base on the outskirts of the capital Tirana, officials said on Saturday. Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said the blasts probably took place while ammunition was being dismantled ... "The explosions are continuing. We have sent helicopters...to evacuate nearby residents. It is a problem because the highway is blocked," Berisha said on Albanian television. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Eco-ruin 'felled early society' Mar 15, 2008
" Some isolated patches of pine forest still remain today The degradation of soils and vegetation could have caused the collapse of agriculture and pastoralism, the foundation of the Argaric economy. This would have led to massive depopulation of the area. The findings were outlined at the recent Climate and Humans conference in Murcia, Spain, and appear in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Bookmark with: RELATED INTERNET LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external... (Yahoo News -- Anthropology and Archaeology)
Post-quake Peru runs out of tents Mar 15, 2008
Albanian arms blasts injure many. Shannon 'starts road to recovery. (Yahoo News -- Peru)
Nigeria oil city in slum clean-up Mar 15, 2008
Albanian arms blasts injure many. FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS. (Yahoo News -- Nigeria)
Serbian govt collapses over Kosovo Mar 9, 2008
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Serb officers desert Kosovo force Feb 29, 2008
KUSCE, Kosovo - Dozens of Serb officers have deserted the Kosovo police force since the new state declared independence, snubbing ethnic Albanian leaders and shattering the only institution in which real cooperation existed between the ethnic groups ... "But we want everybody to be happy, both Serbs and Albanians. That's the main point." ... The 7,000-strong multiethnic police force had been praised as one of few successful cases of Kosovo's Serbs and ethnic Albanians working together. (MSNBC -- International)
Crisis leads to more child abuse - aid group Feb 29, 2008
An ethnic Albanian woman feeds her baby as she and another 2,000 refugees walk up a muddy dirt track after they were allowed to enter Macedonia March 30, 1999 in the. URL: http://www. (AlertNet)
Kosovo marks its first full week of independence, Serbs protest across Europe Feb 25, 2008
Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo remained jubilant with their new status ... "This is something that all Albanians have waited centuries for and changes will come soon." ... The vast majority of Kosovo's population is ethnic Albanian. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Chretien: Canada in tough spot over Kosovo Feb 23, 2008
Kosovo is 90 per cent populated by ethnic Albanians ... Albanians migrated to Serbia (Kosovo), and decided that since they are the majority, they should then separate ... When they announced their unilateral declaration, they waved "Albanian" flags. (CTV.ca)
1 Dead In U.S. Embassy Mob Attack Feb 22, 2008
At least 150,000 people rallied in Belgrade, waving Serbian flags and signs proclaiming "Stop USA terror," to denounce the bid by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority to create their own state out of what Serbs consider the ancient heartland of their culture. Several hundred men broke away from the massive protest, battering gates and burning the U.S. flag - eventually breaking down doors and setting the U.S. Embassy's visa section on fire, reports CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar. (CBS News)
Serbs invade U.S. Embassy Feb 22, 2008
At least 150,000 people rallied in Belgrade, waving Serbian flags and signs proclaiming "Stop USA terror," to denounce the bid by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority to create their own state out of what Serbs consider the ancient heartland of their culture. AP. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Kosovo president requests NATO help Feb 22, 2008
Serbs have protested daily since Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership declared independence on Sunday ... NATO, which now has about 16,000 peacekeepers in Kosovo, has policed Kosovo since halting a Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in 1999 ... Kosovo, which is 90% ethnic Albanian, has not been under Belgrade's control since 1999, when a U.N. mission took over its administration. (USA Today)
Belgrade embassy attacks spark international protests Feb 22, 2008
It only harms the defence of our integrity and sovereignty and the defence of our Kosovo," Tadic was quoted as saying. There was strong condemnation from the European Union and in the UN Security Council, where Serbia's main ally Russia had blocked repeated attempts to move Kosovo further down the path of independence. UN Security Council members "condemn in the strongest terms the mob attacks," said a statement read by Panama's UN Ambassador Ricard Arias, the council chair this month. EU... (Yahoo! Asia News)
Russia criticizes Kosovo on independence Feb 21, 2008
For three days, Kosovo's Serbs have shown their anger over Sunday's declaration of independence by the ethnic Albanian leadership by destroying UN and NATO property, setting off small bombs, and staging rallies. Chanting "We won't give up Kosovo," about 3,000 demonstrators marched to a bridge in the tense Serb stronghold of Kosovska Mitrovica. (Boston Globe)
Serbs press their drive to control northern Kosovo Feb 21, 2008
Serbs in northern Kosovo on Wednesday continued what appeared to be a drive to force a partition three days after the ethnic Albanian majority declared the province's independence from Serbia. A mob of 300 Serbs wielding clubs and tools gathered on a road near this small village of ethnic Albanians in northern Kosovo, prompting NATO to send armored vehicles and tanks to head them off ... Earlier, ethnic Albanian police officers, part of Kosovo's multiethnic police force, were forced out of the... (International Herald Tribune)
Who are the Calabrian mafia? Feb 20, 2008
They believe that the super-secretive 'Ndrangheta works with Turkish and Albanian mobs and, through the latter, with the Russians. According to a 2006 report by Italy's anti-Mafia law enforcement agency the DIA, the Calabrian Mafia now holds a virtual monopoly on cocaine trafficking in Europe, generating an estimated annual turnover of some $50bn (33bn euros; 26bn). (BBC News)
A new nation, but the old problems will linger yet Feb 19, 2008
Its constitution has lots of noble language about equal rights, and lists Albanian and Serbian as its two official languages ... After the fireworks have fizzled and the giant twin-headed eagle flags have stopped being waved with quite such fervour (they are never really put away) Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population will have to dispel the years-long held illusion that independence will suddenly change everything ... Not just journalists, of course, but Albanians, too - returning from... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Rice text on Kosovo Feb 19, 2008
Nine years ago, the international community, led by NATO, acted to end brutal attacks on the Kosovar Albanian population. This timely international intervention ended the violence, leading to a United Nations Security Council decision to suspend Belgrade's governance and place Kosovo under interim U.N. administration. (Anchorage Daily News)
‘New’ Kosovo gets example from Kids for Peace Feb 19, 2008
Celebrations all over Kosovo lasted well into the night as ethnic Albanians took to the streets to mark this milestone in their history. Yet while the Albanian population celebrated what they see as a reward for many years of struggle for self-determination, the Serb population is angry at what they perceive as an illegal cessation of Kosovo from their country. (AlertNet)
Kosovo Declares Independence From Serbia Feb 18, 2008
Across the capital, Pristina, revelers danced in the streets, fired guns into the air and waved red and black Albanian flags in jubilation at the birth of the world's newest country ... Ninety percent of Kosovo's 2 million people are ethnic Albanian ... Kosovo had formally remained a part of Serbia even though it has been administered by the U.N. and NATO since 1999, when NATO airstrikes ended former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. (CBS News)
Post a comment Feb 18, 2008
was to quell the death and rape squads that were running the streets of Kosovo by the Albanians ... This is just expanding the Albanian nation is all- at the expense of a neighbour that for decades had allowed to come in to work and live ... I cannot believe what i am reading, please take history books and read them once again(sry again) Slav people cam to Balkan peninsula in the 7th century, whilst Albanian population(nomadic people/Ilirian s) lived there before the new era, reaching from... (International Herald Tribune)
Russia issues warning over breakaway states Feb 18, 2008
Inside Kosovo itself, the momentous decision is not expected to lead to violence and bloodshed between the majority ethnic Albanians and minority Serbs ... Abkhazia s President Sergei Bagapsh said: "We have been watching the Kosovo situation very closely and we will announce our further steps if Kosovo declares its independence. Events are also being studied in neighbouring Armenia and Azerbaijan which are locked in another frozen conflict over the future of Nagorno-Karabakh. The... (Yahoo News -- Kosovo)
Newly independent Kosovo awaits the world's recognition Feb 18, 2008
Independence was declared Sunday in parliament, which is dominated by representatives of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority ... Some 10,000 people died in the 1998-1999 Kosovo war as Serb forces tried to put down ethnic Albanian separatists. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Kosovo secedes from Serbia Feb 18, 2008
Serbia immediately rejected the secession of Kosovo, which has a population of two million, 90 per cent of who are ethnic Albanians, a majority of them Moslems ... Across the Kosovo capital, revellers danced in the streets, fired guns into the air and waved red and black Albanian flags in jubilation at the birth of the world's newest country ... " Snow blanketed the capital yesterday morning after triumphant celebrations the night before, thousands of Albanians pouring into the streets, flags in... (Guardian News, Nigeria)
