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...RELEASED. United Nations workers ANGELITO NAYAN, 34, of the Philippines, ANNETTE FLANIGAN, 43, of Northern Ireland, and SHQIPE HEBIBI, 36, of Kosovo; after being kidnapped by Habib Noorzad, a splinter faction of the Taliban; in Kabul. The three had helped organize Afghanistan's landmark Oct. 9 election and were abducted at gunpoint on Oct. 28. The captors said the government had agreed to release 24 Taliban prisoners in exchange for the hostages, a claim that was denied by Afghan Interior Minister Ahmed Ali Jalali...
...India's and Pakistan's Prime Ministers. - By Tim McGirk Fallout Over Funds LATVIA Prime Minister Indulis Emsis' coalition government resigned after legislators rejected his proposed 2005 budget. His coalition - the Baltic state's 10th post-Soviet government - held just 47 seats in the 100-member parliament. Counting In Kosovo SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO All 660,000 votes cast in Kosovo's legislative elections will be recounted. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, acting on complaints by political parties, found inaccuracies in the count. Earlier partial results showed no party had enough support...
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...
...national interest." The Howard government committed troops to lead the U.N. peacekeeping effort in East Timor (about 1,000 remain there). But it sees Labor's faith in the U.N. as unrealistic, given the world body's failure to enforce its resolutions on Iraq or bring peace to Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia or Sudan. In a post-9/11 world of terrorism, black-market nukes and bioweapons, the U.S. is the best hope for Australian security - and the world's - says Downer. America's "unrivaled intelligence and military resources provide the most potent weaponry to disrupt and destroy the terrorists. Through...
...fight threats far away from home, they land on our doorstep. We are in Afghanistan to prevent that country from becoming a safe haven for terrorists again. We used to defend our borders; now we have to project stability. That's what we're doing in Afghanistan, in Kosovo, in Bosnia. NATO has neither the means nor the ambition to be the world's gendarmes, but it will act if it sees that action is in the interests of the alliance. NATO has a lot on its plate. Let's not have unrest if an alliance of 26 nations starts...