The plight of the refugees flooding this gritty border town hits a bit close to home — an unlikely kinship that has been spurring the locals into action. The predominantly ethnic Albanian town of Presevo is the first port of call in Serbia for refugees who've crossed the border from Macedonia — an exodus that has stirred up still painful memories from the Kosovo war in the late 1990s.

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