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Independent Kosovo is a party state
KOSOVO: There must have been 12 of them, as well as
at least one large stereo system, inside and on top of the little
van that wobbled drunkenly towards the centre of Pristina, writes
Daniel McLaughlin in Pristina. p
Serbian minority fearful and angry at western powers
SERBIA: Marko Tijnic was reading a newspaper headline in the Cafe London in the Serbian enclave of Mitrovica North yesterday. "The Oath Lasts," it read. "The Ownership Remains." Peter Beaumont reports from Mitrovica. p
Pakistani opposition say today's vote will be rigged
PAKISTAN: Pakistani opposition politicians said yesterday the government planned to rig the vote in general elections today that could bring in a parliament keen to force the president Pervez Musharraf from power, writes Zeeshan Haider in Islamabad. p
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Kosovan independence: a chronology
KOSOVO: June 1989 - Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic uses the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, when the Ottoman Turks defeated the Serbs, to warn that Serbs will never yield control of the province. He starts stripping away its autonomy. pParties unite to support Kosovo move
KOSOVO: Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern is to recommend that Ireland formally recognise Kosovo's independence. pSame gun dealer sold to two campus killers
US: The online gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech gunman said it was an unnerving coincidence that he also sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five students at Northern Illinois University. p80 killed in suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN: A suicide bombing at an outdoor dog-fighting competition killed 80 people and wounded scores more yesterday in the deadliest terror attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. pPresident knocked out of Cypriot election
CYPRUS: Cyprus's president Tassos Papadopoulos was yesterday eliminated in the first round of a photo-finish presidential election contest. pObama's silver-tongued spell will end in broken promises
US Election/Opinion: There's no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than reprocessed tap water) and charge more than they pay for gasoline, writes Charles Krauthammer . pKenyan leadership resists US pressure for deal
KENYA: Any outside attempt to force through a political deal in Kenya would be a mistake and the solution to the postelection crisis lies with Kenyans, Moses Wetangula, Kenya's foreign minister, said yesterday, writes Katie Nguyen and Joseph Sudah in Nairobi. pBiofuel threat to Kenya's last wilderness
KENYA: The developed world's insatiable thirst for fuel is threatening one of Kenya's last wilderness regions, according to conservationists, writes Rob Crilly . pBush enjoys a hero's welcome in Africa
AFRICA: Unpopular at home and in much of the world during the last year of his US presidency, George Bush is basking in rare adulation on his African tour. pRights group seeks ban on cluster munitions
MIDDLE EAST: The death and devastation wreaked by four million cluster bomblets fired by Israel into southern Lebanon in 2006 should compel the international community to ban this weapon, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. pYouths set fire to cars and schools in week of rioting in Denmark
DENMARK: Bands of youths set fire to cars, buses and schools in Denmark at the weekend, in a week of nightly rioting and vandalism in the capital Copenhagen and other Danish cities, police said yesterday. pIn Short
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