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Kosovo question is put to voters
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published October 28, 2006
SERBIA Serbian voters will decide this weekend whether to approve a new constitution that declares Kosovo an integral part of Serbia, despite U.N.-led negotiations under way on the future of the breakaway province that Serbs consider their religious and national heartland. The charter also would define Serbia as an independent state for the first time since 1918 - before it was incorporated in Yugoslavia - and replace the constitution of former autocratic ruler Slobodan Milosevic, drafted in 1990 as Yugoslavia began to disintegrate. Although Kosovo is still formally part of Serbia, it has been administered by the United Nations and NATO since the end of the alliance's 1999 air war, which halted Belgrade's crackdown on the province's ethnic Albanian separatists. Serbia's 6.6-million voters will be able to cast ballots today and Sunday, including Serbs in Kosovo. But Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians have been left off voter lists, and Belgrade officials have not invited them to vote. MEXICO American is killed in clash, police say An American was shot and killed Friday during clashes in the protest-besieged Mexican city of Oaxaca, police said. Several other people were wounded. The American man, whom police believe was a journalist working for an unidentified media organization, was shot in the abdomen and died later at a hospital, said a police official who was not authorized to give his name. The victim's name and hometown weren't immediately available. It was unclear who opened fire in the protests, but the clashes appeared to be between residents and protesters who are demanding the resignation of Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz, the police official said. Elsewhere ... Sudan: The top U.N. envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, will keep his job until his contract ends on Dec. 31 and will make a brief return to Khartoum next month despite being expelled by the government, a U.N. spokesman said Friday. SRI LANKA: The government and the rebel Tamil Tigers are due to sit down today for their first face-to-face peace talks in months over one of Asia's most intractable conflicts. CHILE: Former dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted Friday for abuses at one of his regime's prisons, a lawyer for relatives of the victims said.
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