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Macedonia - Peace workers speak about inhumanties
One of six US nationals released on Monday (23/3) after being detained in Serbia's troubled Kosovo province said ethnic Albanian fellow-prisoners had been severely beaten. The non-governmental organisation Peace Workers voiced concern...
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Kosovo - Serb tanks
Serb tanks were seen driving through villages on Monday (19/10) in Kosovo, as OSCE verifiers tried to implement peace accords in the war-torn province. Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders accused Yugoslav president Slobodan...
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ITALY: CORSICA: KOSOVO: TORNADO BOMBERS ARRIVE FROM GERMANY
Eng/French/Nat
British Tornado bombers were redeployed from Germany to the Mediterranean island of Corsica on Saturday, in a move aimed at halving the time it takes to carry out air strikes against Serbia.
The Tornados arrived at the...
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USA: NEW YORK: US CONFIRMS SANCTIONS ON BELGRADE
English/Nat
The United States on Monday reaffirmed it's position over the crisis in Kosovo and confirmed it was imposing economic sanctions on Belgrade.
In a White House briefing, Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry also delivered...
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KOSOVO: KLA CONTINUES ITS RESISTANCE FIGHT
English/Nat
The Kosovo Liberation Army (K-L-A) is continuing its resistance fight in the hills of Kosovo.
In a remote location in the Drnica region, it has formed a special unit to counter the ongoing Serb offensive.
To prove they have...
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USA: KOSOVO: CLINTON DEFENDS USE OF FORCE
Washington D-C, U-S-A - 24 March 1999
1. Set up of news briefing and cutaway
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, U-S President
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, U-S President
5. Cutaway
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill...
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RUSSIA: KOSOVO CRISIS PEACE TALKS LATEST (2)
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russia's Kosovo envoy has reported a breakthrough in talks with Western officials, regarding the Balkan conflict.
Viktor Chernomyrdin on Monday said he had persuaded NATO countries to allow Yugoslavia to leave some troops...
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Polls close as counting gets underway in Kosovo's local election
Voting for mayors and local councils came to an end in Kosovo on Sunday evening as election officials closed polling stations and started counting ballots.
The vote was set to test the country's fragile relations with Serbia as both...
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8th anniversary of end of NATO intervention that led to UN administration
1. Various of street scenes
2. Various of Albanian flags waving in the centre
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hashim Thaci, ex-Kosovo Liberation Army commander:
"Of course everything has changed, Kosovo is free, now we have a day of freedom...
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BELGIUM: NATO CHIEF SOLANA KOSOVO PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana has said that ambassadors from the 16-nation
military alliance had completed all the work necessary before ordering air strikes against Yugoslavia over Kosovo.
Solana warned that...
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Albania - Kosovan refugees/Aid Red Cross
As Kosovan refugees continued to flood over the border into northern Albania on Sunday (07/06), the International Red Cross began a massive programme of food distribution to affected areas. Around 50,000 members of the ethnic Albanian...
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FRANCE: KOSOVO PEACE TALKS SUSPENDED UNTIL MARCH
Rambouillet, France and Belgrade, Serbia - February 23 1999
Pool - Rambouillet
1. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's car arriving, Albright gets out and goes through door
APTN - Rambouillet
2. Serbian President Milan...
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Voxpops on expectations of Tadic's speech to Security Council
Pristina
1. Wide of Pristina skyline
2. Wide of Kosovo's trademark sign "Newborn"
3. People walking in the street
4. Various exteriors of United Nations headquarters in Pristina
5. Close-up of UN flag
6. Exterior of European Union's...
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Prodi announces recognition of Kosovo
1. Wide shot Palazzo Chigi, Italian prime minister's office
2. Medium flags
3. Wide of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema and other officials taking seats for news conference
4. SOUNDBITE:...
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Kosovo - Serb forces capture coal mine in Kosovo
Serb police forces on Wednesday (1/7) recaptured the Belacevac coal mine region after two days of continuous fighting with ethnic Albanian rebels. The location of the mine is very strategic as it supplies coal to the nearby Obilic power...
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YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO: 150 BODIES FOUND IN MASS GRAVES
Albanian/Nat
Tales of horror continue to emerge from Kosovo.
An estimated 150 bodies have been discovered in what looks like a mass grave in the village of Isbica, near Mitrovica.
Eyewitnesses claim that hundreds of Albanians fled to the...
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Switzerland - KLA comments on Kosovo crisis
A Swiss-based political representative of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army said Tuesday (13/10) that any solution short of full autonomy for the troubled Yugoslav province was unacceptable.
General view Cevey
Exterior building
Set-up...
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MACEDONIA: BRAZDE: REFUGEE CHILDREN STAGE PEACE RALLY (V)
Voice and effects
Young refugees in the Brazde camp in Macedonia have held rally in support of both NATO and the Kosovo Liberation Army (K-L-A) .
As they marched, they chanted slogans and carried banners praising the alliance's air...
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USA: WASHINGTON: BILL CLINTON ADDRESSES WAR VETERANS
English/Nat
U-S President Bill Clinton says America and its NATO allies will continue to bomb Serb forces until Slobodan Milosevic agrees to conditions for an end to the conflict in Kosovo.
He says the U-S and NATO must act now to...
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KOSOVO/MACEDONIA: KOSOVO CRISIS WORSENING
Eng/Albanian/Nat
As the Kosovo peace talks are adjourned pending Serb agreement, and U-S personnel are evacuating from their embassy in Belgrade, the situation inside the disputed province is worsening.
Serb police are reinforcing...
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KOSOVO: SERBS CLASH WITH NATO PEACEKEEPERS
English/Nat
Kosovo Serbs wielding axes and pitchforks clashed with NATO-led peacekeepers in the town of Gracanica following a decision by moderate Serbs earlier this week to participate in the province's interim United Nations...
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ALBANIA: HUGE INFLUX OF REFUGEES & NATO TROOPS
English/Nat
Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, is struggling to cope with the huge influx of refugees and NATO troops.
Albania has already taken in over 300-thousand refugees who've fled Kosovo and now it has to play host...
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KOSOVO: URANIUM: KOUCHNER VISITS TEST SITE
Italian/Eng/Nat
The U-N's chief administrator in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, on Tuesday visited a site in western Kosovo which is currently being tested for depleted uranium by a group of Italian and Portuguese investigators.
Kouchner...
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Kosovo Serbs/Albanians on expectations of EU summit
Gracanica, (Serbian dominated town)
1. Various of Kosovo Serb villagers in street market
2. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Slobodan Ilic, Kosovo Serb, Vox Pop:
"I think that Kosovo Albanians should not declare independence. I don't trust the EU....