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Kosovo Declares Independence from Serbia

Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Featured on Episode 21 of the 2007-2008 season

 

There is much celebration in Kosovo this week, after the nation of two million people declared its independence from Serbia on Sunday. Officials in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, are unhappy about the move, and called Kosovo a fake state. The United Nations will be meeting to talk about the new nation. Kosovo is located in Eastern Europe, just north of Greece. About 3,000 miles to the southeast, in Pakistan, parliamentary elections took place Monday. People were so afraid of Election Day violence that only about 20% of them voted in many areas. Armed police and 80,000 soldiers kept law and order at many polling stations. Results will probably institute a new kind of government, after eight years of military rule under President Pervez Musharraf. The United States has been advising Pakistan on election procedures.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19188847

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