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...Europe, acting on complaints by political parties, found inaccuracies in the count. Earlier partial results showed no party had enough support on its own to govern Kosovo, which has been under U.N. supervision since 1999. Serbs boycotted the poll, aiming to halt a move toward independence by the ethnic Albanian majority. Kabul Kidnappings AFGHANISTAN In the first abductions of foreigners in Kabul in recent years, three workers for the U.N.-Afghan commission overseeing the Oct. 9 presidential vote count were snatched from a car. They were identified as Annetta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, Shqipe Habibi of Kosovo and Angelito Nayan...
Ilija and Blaguna Trajkovic don't think much of democracy. Forced by an ethnic Albanian mob to leave their home in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, last March, and then obliged to stand by as the 19th century Serbian Orthodox church they had taken care of was torched, the Serb couple now live in a shipping container in the enclave of Gracanica, south of Pristina. In the past month, successive international delegations have urged the Trajkovics and 130,000 other members of the Serb minority living in Kosovo to participate in this week's elections for the Kosovo Assembly, the provisional...
...want to leave Greece without looking in on some of its beautiful islands. But you don't have to jostle with the crowds on Mykonos, Santorini, Crete and all those other tourist magnets. Here are three lesser-known getaways: AGISTRI Once a haven for Albanian refugees fleeing Serbian expansion in the 14th century, this tiny island won fame in the 1980s when its lovely pebbled beach, Halikiada, became a favorite haunt for nudists. Today even the most buttoned-down visitors get hooked on Agistri's idyllic, unspoiled beauty. The island is just a two-hour ferry ride from the port...
...summer of 1999, Louise Arbour visited a war-crimes site in the southeastern Kosovo village of Vlastica. She walked for a time with a local Albanian woman, who confessed to still fearing for her life. "Don't worry," Arbour replied. "We're here...
...Killing Continues KOSOVO Two U.N. peacekeepers died in an ambush as the fallout continued from the worst wave of violence to sweep Kosovo since the 1999 war. NATO troops and international police arrested almost 200 suspects in the previous week's riots, in which ethnic Albanian mobs targeted the Serbian minority, leaving 28 dead. U.N. agencies estimate that almost 4,000 Serbs were displaced, 366 homes destroyed, and 41 churches burned...