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CNN
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While the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet, many younger Tibetans do not follow him on a crucial question -- whether Tibet should have genuine autonomy or independence from China. The young activists who have organized "Free Tibet" marches arou..
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CNN
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Kosovo on Monday began its campaign for global recognition a day after declaring independence from Serbia, but bitter divisions in the European Union and United Nations raised the specter of conflict over the Balkan territory. Facing severe economic probl..
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CNN
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Kosovo's assembly was expected Wednesday to approve a coalition government which strongly backs independence from Serbia. The Democratic Party of former rebel leader Hashim Thaci and its rival, the Democratic League of Kosovo, concluded negotiations this..
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BBC News
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Burma has held a series of low-key events to mark the 60th anniversary of independence from British rule.
Military ruler Gen Than Shwe used the occasion to reiterate the government's determination to continue with its seven-stage roadmap to democracy...
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CNN
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Kosovo will press ahead with plans for independence, a spokesman for the region's Albanian leaders said Monday as negotiators were due to confirm that talks to settle the future status of the Serbian province had failed. Spokesman Skender Hyseni said Koso..
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Washington Post
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Voters in a breakaway Georgian region cast ballots Sunday in a referendum that separatist leaders hope will reaffirm their independence bid, but that Georgia has warned will only raise tensions...
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BBC News
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The breakaway Abkhazia region in Georgia has called on the UN and other international bodies to recognise it as independent.
The appeal was made by the separatist Abkhaz parliament on Friday, a day after Russia said it was lifting trade restrictions on..
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BBC News
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EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to seek a joint position on Kosovo's independence declaration.
While the major European powers are widely expected to recognise Kosovo's independence from Serbia, several other countries have strong reservat..
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CNN
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Russia has criticized western powers for encouraging Kosovo's ambitions for independence, saying the situation in the Balkans could evolve in to an "uncontrollable crisis." Kosovo is expected to declare independence from Serbia some time in the new year...
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BBC News
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Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia "much earlier" than the expected month of May, a spokesman says.
The statement comes as a UN deadline for agreement on the future of Kosovo is set to expire, after months of talks which have failed to break..
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BBC News
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Indians are celebrating 60 years of independence from Britain.
Delhi's Red Fort echoed to the sound of cannon as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised India's flag, where the British flag was lowered forever in 1947.
He praised the work of those who..
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BBC News
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Celebrations are taking place across Pakistan to commemorate the 60th anniversary of independence from the UK and the creation of the country.
President Musharraf marked the anniversary by staunchly defending sovereignty and calling on the nation to un..
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USA Today
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Pakistan marked the 60th anniversary of its independence from British rule Tuesday amid a political crisis facing the country's U.S.-allied president and surging militant violence.
Artillery guns boomed at daybreak in Islamabad, and military cadets hel..
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FOX News
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President Bush, getting a hero's welcome as the first American president to visit this Balkan nation, said Sunday that there cannot be endless dialogue about achieving independence for neighboring Kosovo.
"Sooner rather than later you've got to say 'En..
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CNN
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Setting up possibly another showdown with Russia, U.S. President George W. Bush has said "the time is now" to grant independence to the Serbian province of Kosovo and called on Moscow not to slow down the process.
"I happen to believe it's important to..
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BBC News
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Russia says a new draft UN resolution supporting a plan for supervised independence for Kosovo is unacceptable and has hinted it could be vetoed.
The new text softens some of the original language and also proposes a new special envoy to help refugees..
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BBC News
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The people of East Timor are voting in the country's first presidential election since it gained independence from Indonesia five years ago.
They must choose between Nobel Peace winner Jose Ramos-Horta and the speaker of parliament, Francisco Guterres...
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Denver Post
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Fifty years ago, Britain granted Ghana her independence. We celebrated that occasion last week in Denver, looking back at the past 50 years of Ghana's existence and wondering what the next 50 years might hold in store for Ghana and Africa.
A second Afr..
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Houston Chronicle
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A U.N. envoy on Friday unveiled his long-awaited plan for Kosovo, a proposal recommending internationally supervised statehood for the contested province where separatists fought a bloody war with Serbia in the late 1990s...
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Yahoo News
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Belgians reacted with shock and disbelief when a state television channel announced that the Flemish part of the country had declared independence and that Belgium was no more...
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