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Mon 02 Feb 2007Two die as UN plan sparks Kosovo riotsSerbia:Kosovo's leaders pleaded for calm yesterday after two people were killed in riots against a United Nations plan to give the province only "conditional" independence from Serbia.Local and UN police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday to disperse some 3,000 protesters from around the government building in central Pristina.