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LONDON (Reuters) - "Ethnic cleansing" could happen again in Kosovo unless negotiations on the province's future lead to strong legal safeguards for minority communities, a minority rights group warned on Monday. Legally part of Serbia, the majority Albanian province has been run by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO bombs drove out Serb forces accused of ethnic cleansing in a two-year war with separatist guerrillas. Ethnic Albanians, who make up 90 percent of the population, are pushing for independence from Serbia, a goal Serbia rejects. London-based Minority Rights Group International said in a report that after seven years of...

Washington, April 26: Stating that New Delhi's "overconfidence" about its ability to keep its nuclear weapons and materials from falling into terrorist hands could be misplaced, a report by US policymakers and think-tanks has warned that the country's multi-ethnic society may pose a serious danger to its arsenal. "India is a multi-ethnic society with the world's second-largest Muslim population, and Arab fighters could blend into Indian society," the report, prepared during a conference in Washington by the NGO Stanley Foundation of IOWA, said. The vulnerability of Indian nuclear weapons or material to theft or diversion was an "overlooked" matter, it...