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Forgetting Kosovo

Jessicah Curtis | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

Read More: Coverage, Violence, Kosovo, Europe, Albania, Nato, Eastern Europe, Serbia, Slobodan Milosovic, World News
Jessicah Curtis

Both Serbs and Albanians in Mitrovica, particularly those under 30, seemed tired of maintaining the levels of inter-ethnic hatred seen during the war.

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Obama Administration Needs to Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs

Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Lebanon, Montenegro, Kosovo, World, War, George W. Bush, Serbia, Obama Administration, Weapons, Laos, Barack Obama, Politics, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Albania, Mines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq, Barack Obama Administration, President Clinton, World News
Donald Steinberg

Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.

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"Eleven O'clock Meeting"

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Politics, Media, Al Gore, White House, Abc, Eleven O'clock Meeting, Mass Grave, Lewinski, Al Franken, Mitt Romney, Nightline, John Markus, Kosovo, Lateline, Media News
Earl Pomerantz

I visited the Nightline production offices and sat in on the "Eleven O'clock Meeting," a daily routine, during which staff gather to decide which topic Nightline will focus on that night.

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Previously Unknown Hagel Letter Warns Rice of Russia Collision

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abkhazia, Serbia, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, US Foreign Policy, South Ossetia, Russia, Stephen Hadley, Chuck Hagel, Balkans, Kosovo, Blowback, Politics News
Steve Clemons

This letter warns the administration that its actions in the Balkans ran the risk of triggering blowback from Russia -- it seems it was ignored.

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Catholic Priest Officiates at Fully-Uniformed Nazi's Funeral

Julia Gorin | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Nazi, Terrorism, Croatia, Thaci, Balkans, Serbia, Catholic, George Bush, Yugoslavia, Kosova, Serbs, Bosnia, Cheney, Albania, Karadzic, Vatican, Politics News
Julia Gorin

Commander of the second-largest concentration camp complex of World War II -- Croatia's Jasenovac -- passed away last week and received a burial in hi...

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Why Doesn't Media Ask McCain: "You Have Served Your Country Honorably, Sir, but Exactly Which Wars Have You Won?"

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: McCain Vietnam, John McCain, John McCain Iraq War, John Mccain Afghanistan, War With Iran, Obama McCain, Mccain, War, Kosovo, Afghanistan War, McCain Iraq, John McCain Iraq, McCain War, John McCain 2008, McCain Afghanistan, John McCain Vietnam, McCain 2008, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

McCain will opt for war as the first choice, not the last choice. With America now embroiled in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one has to worry about John McCain's desire to "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."

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Par For the Course: Purported Serbian Killer of Muslims Arrested; Confirmed Muslim Killers of Christian Serbs Acquitted, Embraced

Julia Gorin | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Julia Gorin, Serbia, Karadzic, Kosovo, Bosnia, Bush, Serbs, Terrorism, Balkans, Politics News
Julia Gorin

When will Americans finally ask what is happening when the U.S. is embracing China, North Korea, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, "Palestine", "Kosova" -- while isolating Serbia?

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In Albania

Mona Gable | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Kosovo, The Maternal Is Political, Nato, Albania, Living News
Mona Gable

In May of 1999 I flew from Budapest into Tirana, the desiccated capital of Albania. I had come to this city at the edge of the Adriatic to follow a group of American doctors and nurses as they journeyed to the refugee camps.

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WaPo Fact Checks Hillary's Kosovo Adventures

Washington Post | Michael Dobbs | Posted 03.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sinbad Kosovo, Hillary Clinton Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton National Security, Kosovo, Hillary Clinton Commander in Chief, Hillary Clinton Kosovo, Politics News

Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retellin...

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Superpower Divide Over Kosovo Widens

AP | ROBERT WIELAARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Kosovo Independence, Serbia, Russia, European Union, Europeans Nations, Superpower Divide Kosovo, Kosovo Independence Declaration, Politics News

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The U.S. and the European Union's biggest powers quickly recognized Kosovo as an independent nation Monday, widening a split...

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Unbridgeable: The Ethnic Divide In Kosovo

International Herald Tribune | Dan Bilefsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Kosovo Independence, Serbians, Kosovo, Kosovo Declares Independence, Kosovars, Serbia, Albanians, Ethnic Tensions Kosovo, Politics News

A day after Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian leadership declared independence from Serbia, 7,000 Serbs took to the streets of this divided city, waving Serbia...

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Defiant Kosovo Celebrates Independence

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE and NEBI QENA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Serbia, Kosovo Independence, Politics News

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Revelers fired guns, waved red-and-black Albanian flags and set off fireworks over Kosovo Sunday after parliament proclaimed ...

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