Word: albanian
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...Olaia Castresana blew herself up as she handled explosives in the Mediterranean resort of Torrevieja. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Dangerously close to all-out war, the two sides in the Macedonian conflict gave way to persuasion and declared another cease-fire. Under pressure from international mediators, rebel ethnic Albanian fighters, who had occupied the area around Tetovo, north of the capital Skopje, began to withdraw as Albanian politicians agreed to meet government representatives. Thousands of civilians had quit the town earlier in the week as rebel and government forces clashed. ALGERIA Blood in the Sand...
TIME.com: Macedonia's political parties appear to have agreed on changes to improve the status of the country's Albanian community, and Western mediators seem very optimistic that this will avert the civil war that has been looming for months. Is their optimism shared on the ground...
...ethnic-Albanian community has been represented in the talks by the political parties that had participated in Macedonia's parliamentary system, rather than by the guerrillas who had rejected their moderation and taken up arms. But the agreement requires that those guerrillas disband and hand over their weapons. How will they be persuaded to accept the deal...
...stage. Once decried by NATO as "murderers in the hills," they have now become a de facto negotiating partner of the Western alliance. Of course NATO isn't talking about including them in political talks just yet - it's hoping to broker a deal among the Macedonian and ethnic-Albanian political parties that have all participated in the country's democratic system until now. But from the guerrillas' point of view, it's only as long as they're waging war that anyone's even talking to them. And that isn't exactly an incentive to turn over their weapons...
...Peace talks between the government and mainstream ethnic-Albanian parties that had participated in government are to resume Friday. There are no direct talks between the government and the rebels, although representatives of NATO countries have served as go-between and brokered cease-fires. But while at the formal diplomatic level the conversation is about creating a more multicultural constitution, events on the ground are pointing in the opposite direction. The idea that hard-eyed men who have faced each other over Kalashnikovs will put all this nastiness behind them as soon as the constitution is revised is growing more...