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Serbian president threatens to deploy troops to Kosovo
By EUobserver
Serbia's president Tomislav Nikolic said the country would send troops into Kosovo to defend Serbs, if necessary, amid a sharp rise in tensions over the weekend. A train painted in Serbian national colours with the word's "Kosovo is Serbia" was blocked from crossing into Kosovo. The train was the first direct link between Belgrade and northern Kosovo's Mitrovica, a majority-ethnic Serb enclave, since 2008.