Eastern Europe

Didn’t have to wait long for the reactions: BREAKING NEWS: Kosovo — An explosion rocked a U.N. building in northern Kosovo, causing slight damage but no injuries, just hours after ethnic Albanian leaders in Pristina proclaimed Kosovo’s independence. The blast — apparently caused by a hurled hand grenade — damaged a concrete wall of the

This could get real interesting…. PRISTINA, Serbia — Kosovo declared itself a nation on Sunday, mounting a brash and historic bid to become an “independent and democratic state” backed by the U.S. and key European allies but bitterly contested by Serbia and Russia. “Kosovo is a republic — an independent, democratic and sovereign state,” parliament