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Serbian Accusation Lingers Of Link Between NATO Bombing, Health Woes (RFE, RL)

Serbian lawmaker Darko Laketic, head of the Commission for Researching Health Impacts of the NATO Bombing, looks at the data and draws a clear line between the Western security alliance's 78-day bombing campaign and a rise in cancer-related disease in children born in the subsequent two decades.

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Preliminary Results Show Need For Mayoral Runoffs In Kosovo (RFERL)

Preliminary results in Kosovo’s municipal elections indicate that runoffs will be needed to decide the winning candidates in mayoral races in major cities throughout the Balkan country. With about 47 percent of precincts reporting in the capital, Pristina, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said incumbent Mayor Shpend Ahmeti of the Self-Determination Party, also known as the Vetevendosje movement (VV), has won 43.84 percent of the vote. If confirmed, it would mean that Ahmeti would face a runoff next month against Arban Abrashi of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), with 36.37 percent.

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Kosovo Charges Nine With Plotting Terror Attacks In Balkans (RFE/RL)

Kosovo charged nine men on June 15 with plotting terror attacks in Kosovo and at a World Cup soccer match between Israel and Albania last year. The men were among 19 detained in a series of arrests in Kosovo and neighboring Albania and Macedonia ahead of the game in November, which was moved for security reasons from the northern Albanian town of Shkodra to a site closer to the Albanian capital, Tirana. https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo-charges-nine-terror-attacks-balkans/28554481.html

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Serbia, Kosovo Train Crisis Just Latest Test Of Mettle (RFE)

On January 15, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic sounded like a leader whose country had just averted mortal danger. "If I had not asked the Serbs to stop the train, we would have had war," Vucic told Belgrade's Pink TV, reflecting on the "train crisis" that threatened to disrupt the fragile peace between Serbia and its former territory Kosovo. http://www.rferl.org/a/balkans-withou-borders-serbia-kosovo-train-crisis-mitrovica/28237545.html

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EU Parliament Committee OKs Georgia Visa Deal, Kosovo Deal In Limbo (RFE/RL)

The European Parliament's civil liberties committee voted on September 5 for visa liberalization for Georgia to the EU's Schengen zone. It also voted in favor of similar move for Kosovo but against the proposal to let the European Parliament negotiate this visa-liberalization deal with other EU institutions, leaving the deal for Pristina in limbo.

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