Ex-Rebel Named Premier in Kosovo
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Kosovo lawmakers named a former rebel commander as prime minister of their new government Friday, ignoring concerns that a UN war crimes tribunal might indict him.
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Kosovo's reformist PM may face war-crimes charges in the Hague
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European Union leaders agreed Friday to send a police and civilian mission to Kosovo, the EU's Portuguese presidency announced, with the Serbian province expected to move toward independence.
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A Serbian leader accused of war crimes at The Hague is to head his party's list in the January general election.
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Red billboards marked &quot;R&quot; have recently cropped up in Kosovo, as a sign of widespread support for former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj ahead of his UN war crimes trial on Monday.
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Kosovo lawmakers named former rebel commander Ramush Haradinaj as prime minister of the new government Friday, ignoring concern that a U.N. war crimes tribunal might be moving to indict him.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Ethnic Albanian former guerrilla Hashim Thaci was elected prime minister of Kosovo on Wednesday and vowed the breakaway province would declare independence from Serbia within weeks.
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A decade after Serbia sent in troops to crush a rebellion, Kosovo prepared to declare independence on Sunday Â a bold and historic move to carve a new country out of a corner of Europe long bloodied by ethnic strife.
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Kosovo's former prime minister and two other alleged rebel fighters from the province's brutal conflict with Serbia go on trial Monday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal charged with a campaign of ethnic ...Comment
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PARIS, March 5 -- An international war crimes prosecutor said Monday that former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj was a gangster in uniform who committed "cruel and violent crimes" during his guerrilla army's war against Serb forces in 1998-99.
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The chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Monday branded Kosovo's former prime minister as a warlord and a mobster in uniform and said he helped commit 'ugly, cruel and violent crimes.' ...Comment
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The United Nations has ruled out blocking the appointment of an ex-guerrilla commander as prime minister of Kosovo, despite concern in the West that he could be charged with war crimes.
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BELGRADE/PRISTINA  - U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari unveiled a plan on Friday to set Serbia's Kosovo province on a path to independence, an outcome which Kosovo's majority Albanians quickly applauded but Belgrade rejected.
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Re-election of Boris Tadic as president of Serbia muddies waters for Kosovo's quest for independence
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo's new  U.N. governor Tuesday pledged a drive to resolve the province's  final status, warning the West had failed to read the  frustrations that fueled ethnic riots in March.
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Boris Tadic will be sworn in as  president of Serbia on Friday, two days before Kosovo declares  independence in Serbia's most traumatic moment since it was  bombed by NATO in 1999 to end ethnic-cleansing in the province.
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Kosovo's former prime minister and two other alleged rebel fighters from the province's brutal conflict with Serbia go on trial Monday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal charged with a campaign of ethnic cleansing aimed at Serbs and their supporters.