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Serbia says Kosovo partition key to peace JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Kosovo must be partitioned between its minority Serbs and dominant ethnic Albanians to reduce tensions there, Serbia’s foreign minister said Thursday.

Vuk Jeremic said Serbia would bring its demand that the country be split along ethnic lines to the United Nations. Kosovo’s prime minister has already rejected the proposal, saying Serbia

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World Bank Gives Albania $9.3M Loan World Bank Gives $9.3 Million Loan to Help Albanian Business Environment TIRANA, Albania (AP) -- The World Bank said Friday it had approved a US$9.3 million (euro7.3 million) loan to help Albania attract investment and promote the export-led private sector.

The project, which would also be funded with half a million dollars from the Albanian government, would support the governm

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Mitrovica bridge becomes wall between two worlds as Serbs prepare for long fight The main bridge linking the Albanian and Serb communities in Kosovo’s most volatile city was deserted yesterday as an international group cautioned that the area was in danger of becoming a long-term “frozen conflict�.

Loops of razor wire were stretched across the road on the northern, Serb side of the Ibar river dividing Mitrovica. They also surrounded t

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Serbia returns to the offensive over Kosovo BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica on Sunday accused NATO peacekeepers and United Nations police of using "snipers and banned ammunition" to quell a Serb riot against Kosovo’s independence.

"It was the international forces," he told the daily Vecernje Novosti in an interview, referring to a riot in the Kosovo Serb stronghol

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Charity worker jailed for molesting Albanian orphans A Scottish charity worker convicted of sexually molesting children at his orphanage in Albania was jailed for 20 years today.

Reading the verdict against John David Brown, 57, of Edinburgh, Judge Gerd Hoxha described him as ’a threat to society’ and said he would be deported from Albania after completing his sentence.

Brown come to Albania in 1999 during the w

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Albanian Skopje Summer Festival The epithets such as the most abundant, the most various, the longest and, according to many authorized marks, one of the most qualitative cultural manifestation of international character which is held in Macedonia, characterize Skopje Summer.

 This manifestation has even received an acknowledgement of its reputation outside the Macedonian borders which is verified by

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Albania Travel Guide ravellers to Albania can enjoy its wild and mountainous landscape, with extensive forests, sandy beaches and many beautiful lakes. Bathed by the Adriatic Sea, the southern coastline remains unspoilt and many activities such as swimming, diving, sailing and fishing are possible.

Albania is one of Europe’s poorest countries and continues to face severe difficulties adjusti