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/ 18 February 2008
Europe’s biggest states recognised the independence of Kosovo on Monday, ending hours of suspense after Prime Minister Hashim Thaci assured his new republic that Western recognition would come ”any minute”. France was first to announce its move after a European Union foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels.
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/ 18 February 2008
Kosovo looked forward on Monday to recognition by the Western powers who went to war to save its Albanian majority, but Russia served notice the new state will never be forced on its Serb allies in the territory. Fireworks brought to a close a day of celebration in the Kosovo capital Pristina, where Parliament adopted a declaration of independence from Serbia.
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/ 17 February 2008
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia. Serbia responded immediately by calling its mainly Albanian breakaway province a false state and condemning the United States for supporting it.
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/ 16 November 2007
The breakaway province of Kosovo holds a parliamentary election on Saturday, ahead of a showdown with Serbia over the ethnic Albanian majority’s demand for independence. Prime Minister Agim Ceku is stepping down, so the election will bring in new leadership.
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/ 24 September 2007
An explosion killed two people and injured 11 when it tore through shops early on Monday in the capital of Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo province. The explosion scattered glass and debris from a dozen shops on Pristina’s Bill Clinton Boulevard. Part of a building collapsed.
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/ 2 February 2007
There was a ”whiff of statehood” in the cold air in Kosovo on Friday, according to the Pristina daily Express. ”The whole world is watching Martti Ahtisaari’s briefcase, which is bringing Kosovo the right to self-determination,” the paper wrote.
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/ 22 January 2006
Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, the ethnic Albanian leader who came to epitomise the province’s decades-long struggle for total independence from Serbia, has died without seeing his dream fulfilled. He was 61. Rugova’s death from lung cancer on Saturday leaves a vacuum in the fraction-ridden political scene at a crucial time.
Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova survived without injury on Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded as he rode to meet visiting European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, police said. An explosive device planted in a garbage can on the street was detonated as Rugova’s convoy passed on its way to the meeting.