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December 2007

 

Ethnic 'cleansing' threat to Serbs in Kosovo The Sunday Telegraph, 2 December 2007

Tens of thousands of Serbs are preparing to flee the troubled Balkan province of Kosovo because of fears that the region is on the brink of a devastating war.

 

 

Illegal immigrants ready at EU's new border The Sunday Telegraph, 16 December 2007

The deputy commander of the European Union's new border post was anxious. "Is the camera switched on?" he whispered to his colleagues. Heads shook. "Sort it out," he ordered them quietly, not realising he was being overheard.

"All of a sudden there was the sound of firing. I heard the sound of a bullet..."

Long live Bhutto," Benazir Bhutto shouted, waving to the crowd surging around her car. They were her last words before three gunshots rang out and she slumped back on to her seat. "She did not say anything more," said Safdar Abbassi, her chief political adviser, who was sitting behind her.

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