Kosovo Violence, Intimidation Mar Key Elections in North

A landmark local election in Kosovo has been marred by violence and voter intimidation in a minority Serb-dominated northern region of the majority ethnic Albanian state. A group of masked men broke into several schools housing polling stations in the Kosovo town of Mitrovica, as voting was under way Sunday. They smashed windows and ballot boxes and tore up election materials, forcing authorities to cancel voting for the rest of the day. Election monitors from the Organization for Security ...

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