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Kosovo police use tear gas to prevent clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs

MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Riot police in Kosovo used tear gas and pepper spray Sunday to separate hundreds of ethnic Albanian protesters from rock-throwing Serbs voting in local Serbian elections in the tense, divided town of Mitrovica.NATO peacekeepers and European Union police units were also deployed to prevent clashes on the bridge that splits the town into a Serbian north and an Albanian south.Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but Serbia rejected the move and with the backing of Russia has fought to keep nations around the world from recognizing Kosovo. Some 70 nations, including the United States , support Kosovo's independence.The Kosovo split came a decade after its 1998-1999 war with Serbia, which ended with NATO bombing Serb forces for weeks in 1999 to stop an ethnic cleansing campaign against Kosovo's mostly ethnic Albanian population.On Sunday, about 2,000 ethnic Albanians, led by veterans of the war, protested a vote in the Serb part of Mitrovica that they c...

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