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Friday, July 23, 2010

World court rules Kosovo's independence legal

A Kosovar Albanian man holds an Albanian flag on his roof-top over the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo as he celebrates the upcoming independence of Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. Kosovo's predominantly ethnic Albanian leadership is expected to proclaim independence from Serbia on later Sunday with Western backing. Serbia has had no formal control over Kosovo, whose two-million population is 90 percent Albanian, since NATO bombing drove out Serb forces in 1999 to halt their killing and ethnic cleansing in a two-year war against separatist rebels.
photo: AP Photo / Bela Szandelszky

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10:45 AM Friday Jul 23, 2010 Email Print The United Nations' highestcourt has ruled that Kosovo's declaration of independence was legal, dealing a blow to Serbia, which vowed never to accept its former province as a separate state and warned the ruling could embolden separatist movements around the world. Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci hailed...
Posted by Muhammad Usman Ali at 10:10 AM

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