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Main EU states recognise Kosovo

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…

Kosovo awaits recognition, and Serb challenge

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…

Kosovo: ‘Today, a new life begins’

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…

Kosovo votes ahead of independence showdown

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…

Explosion in Kosovo capital kills two people

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…

Kosovo senses ‘whiff’ of independence

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…

Kosovo leader dies of lung cancer

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…

Kosovo president survives roadside bomb

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,…