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6 hrs ago | Emirates News Agency

IDB approves US$ 462 Million for New Development Projects in Member Countries

WAM DUSHANBE, 22 May, 2013 - The 290th meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank has approved US$ 461.7 million to fund various development projects in member countries, as well as several educational projects for Muslim communities in non-member countries.

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Related Topix: Tajikistan, Asia, Africa, Mauritania, Europe

10 hrs ago | Pravda

Kosovo Serbs cry for help

Brussels intensifies diplomatic efforts for the implementation of the new agreement on Kosovo, signed by Belgrade and Pristina on April 19.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Serbia, Ivica Dacic,

Tue May 21, 2013

SETimes news

Parliament to take up Kosovo privatisations

Members of the Vetevendosje movement draw on a board depicting 76,000 employees they say lost their jobs due to privatisation in Kosovo, on September 28th 2012.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Hashim Thaci

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'Serbia won't make promises it can't keep'

Serbian President Tomislav Nikoliae told German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Monday that Serbia is fully committed to resolving the Kosovo issue.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Serbia,

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Germany 'demands institutional discontinuity'

Germany insists on the shutdown of the existing institutions in northern Kosovo so that new ones could be set up, MP Milovan Drecun has said.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Serbia, Hashim Thaci

Mon May 20, 2013

SETimes news

Vucic urges Kosovo Serbs to accept 'the future'

Serbia Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with Kosovo Serbs in the hopes that they will accept the Belgrade-Pristina agreement.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Fri May 17, 2013

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"If Pristina obstructs talks, we will turn to UN"

If the talks on Kosovo fail because of Pristina's obstructions, other exit strategies should be considered, even returning the talks under the UN auspices.

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Related Topix: Serbia, World News, Europe

Weekday Magazine

U.S. Congressman Says Deal Allows Serbia, Kosovo To 'Look Forward To Future'

Belgrade and Pristina's landmark agreement to normalize their relations is facing difficult hurdles on the ground in the Serb-majority municipalities of northern Kosovo.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, US Politics, US News, Eliot Engel, US House of Representatives, Democrat

AlertNet

UN Goodwill Ambassador Jes's V?zquez visits Syrian refugees in Jordan

PRISTINA, Kosovo, May 14 - When Arsen Hamiti brought his family home from their war-time refuge in Germany, he discovered that his four daughters born in exile faced a formidable obstacle to a normal life: they lacked that simple but fundamental document, the birth certificate.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Thu May 16, 2013

Inter Press Service

At Political Rally, Serbian Church Crosses Sensitive Line

The Serbian Orthodox Church is highly influential in Serbia. Above, the Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade.

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Related Topix: Serbia, Religion, World News, Orthodox Church, Europe, Ivica Dacic

Wed May 15, 2013

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"PMs must help if implementation grinds to halt"

Vincent Degert says Serbia and Kosovo's PMs Ivica Daeiae and Hashim Thaci will have to step in if the implementation of the agreement grinds to a halt.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Hashim Thaci, Turkey,

Sofia News Agency

Kosovo's PM Thaci Arrives in Bulgaria after Deal with Serbia

Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci arrives in Bulgaria on Wednesday to pay a one-day working visit.

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Related Topix: Europe, Bulgaria, World News, Hashim Thaci, Serbia,

Tue May 14, 2013

Trend Hunter Magazine

Wavy Wood Coffeeshops - The Don Cafe House by Innarch is Inspired by...

The stunning design of the Don Cafe House might be appropriately inspired by a sack of coffee beans, but the first thing that will come to some people's minds is The Great Wave off Kanagawa painting.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Drink, Coffee

Newsday

Feeling betrayed in north Kosovo

He is watching police dogs snuffling about the drab municipal building on the Serbian, northern side of the divided town of Mitrovica, preparing for the visit of Aleksandar Vucic.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Serbia,

Sun May 12, 2013

Bangkok Post

Belgrade urges Serbs in Kosovo to accept...

Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic urged Serbs living in northern Kosovo to accept an EU-brokered agreement to normalise relations between Serbia and its breakaway former province, while admitting the accord was not ideal.

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Related Topix: Europe, Serbia,

Sat May 11, 2013

SETimes news

Authorities strive to resolve housing issue

Faced with a huge number of people who need help in resolving their housing situation, Serbia and Kosovo authorities are launching initiatives to provide apartments to their vulnerable populations.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Fri May 10, 2013

Weekday Magazine

Ultra-Nationalists Protest Deal With Kosovo

More than 3,000 people protested in Belgrade on May 10 against an EU-brokered deal to normalize ties between Belgrade and Kosovo, seen by ultra-nationalists as Serbia's tacit recognition of its former province's independence.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News

Cleveland.com

Kosovo Youth Exchange Program Changes Lives in Kosovo, America

"Opening myself up to a new family and a new culture was the best decision of my life," says Dorotea, one of the class of 2012-13 Kosovo Youth Exchange Program .

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Cleveland, OH, Education Etc.

Thu May 09, 2013

SETimes news

Accused crime boss arrest is a 'kick' to regional drug trade

The arrest of suspected narcotics boss Naser Kelmendi is a major step in combatting the drug trade in the region, analysts said.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Mafia, Europe, World News, Serbia,

The Charlotte Observer

Kosovo: 1 month detention for suspected drug boss

PRISTINA, Kosovo The European Union law mission in Kosovo says it has ordered a suspected Balkan drug boss to be detained for one month while it gathers evidence in a suspected organized crime case.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News