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...rigueur for the Kabul social set, though conversations tend toward war stories rather than the latest charity ball. In fact, so central is L'Atmo to the lives of the Afghan capital's foreign community, Victor and Cressaty have opened a branch in Kabul's sandbag-ringed NATO compound. This is so that troops - who aren't allowed around town without a humvee escort - can get a decent meal with relative ease. To quote the restaurateurs' compatriot, Napoleon Bonaparte, "an army marches on its stomach." Dishes like L'Atmo's almond trout, duck breast with peaches or grilled king prawns...
...took 77 days for NATO bombs to drive Serbian forces out of the small Balkan province of Kosovo during the 1999 war. The effort to get Serbs and Kosovars to agree on the implications of that outcome has taken eight years, consumed billions of dollars and entangled a legion of diplomats. It's not working. By Dec. 10, Serb and Albanian negotiators are supposed to sign on to a detailed, internationally vouchsafed plan for a peaceful separation of Kosovo from Serbia. But Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders are on the verge of scuppering the already deadlocked talks by unilaterally declaring...
...company of those who support tearing a piece of our territory away," Leon Kojen, a former chief Serbian negotiator, told the Belgrade daily Politika. Russia's intransigence, meanwhile, is part of a general hardening of Moscow's stance on a range of issues affecting its border with E.U. and NATO member states. A forced resolution in Kosovo is bound to increase tensions between Russia and the Western allies...
...Luxembourg was a founding member of the United Nations in 1945, NATO in 1949, and the European Economic Community (now the European Union...
...Karamanlis's reelection also heralds a tougher stance on foreign policy issues. In nationwide televised debate that offered the most intimate glimpse of the top candidates ahead of Sunday's poll, a stern-looking Karamanlis warned he would block Macedonia's efforts to join NATO and the European Union unless a decade-long dispute over the name of the neighbouring state was resolved. The threat sparked a diplomatic tiff between Athens and Skopje since the debate, with Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovksi saying he would withdraw from the U.N.-brokered name talks if Greece vetoed his country's designs to join...