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Kosovo street fight leaves many injured
The Associated Press
YUGOSLAVIA — A fight between an ethnic Albanian and a Serb escalated into a street battle yesterday in which 18 French peacekeepers and 24 civilians were wounded, a further sign of the deep ethnic hatred dividing Kosovo.
The violence broke out on the northern side of Kosovska Mitrovica, and U.N. officials were forced to suspend attempts to register Serbs wanting to return to their homes on the southern, ethnic Albanian side of town. Later, the U.N. moved the divided city's curfew earlier by two hours to 8 p.m.
According to witnesses, an ethnic Albanian identified as Luan Miftari attacked an unidentified Serb man with a crowbar in an Albanian neighborhood on the Serb-controlled side of Kosovska Mitrovica.
An Associated Press reporter saw several Serbs rush to help the injured man, while others went after Miftari. In the crush, an ethnic Albanian opened fire from the backyard of a nearby house, seriously wounding one Serb.
"That created panic," said Lt. Matthieu Mabin, a representative for the French peacekeepers, who arrived after the shooting started.
The French troops and police were running down a narrow side street, toward the shots, when someone threw grenades at them. he said.
Medics scrambled to stabilize one soldier's leg wound as another lay on the ground moaning. Those who were not hurt in the blasts dragged injured comrades toward waiting ambulances.
Twenty Serbs, 16 French peacekeepers and four ethnic Albanians were injured, according to Lt. Col Patrick Chanliu, another representative for the French peacekeepers. A 17th peacekeeper was injured in a separate incident, he said.
Four ethnic Albanians were arrested in the shootings, Chanliau said.
The number wounded was the most since Oct. 12, when 33 people were wounded near the bridge that connects the ethnically divided neighborhoods.
By late afternoon, a rocket hit one of the buildings, slamming into the structure's seventh floor. No injuries were reported.
Members of a group of about 50 ethnic Albanians, who said they had fled to the southern side yesterday, claimed Serbs had thrown grenades at their homes, moving from one Albanian house to the next to drive out residents.
German 'baby drop' to give mothers a choice
The Associated Press
HAMBURG, Germany Desperate mothers who do not want their babies will soon be able to drop them off anonymously through a chute at a Hamburg day-care center, under a project being launched by a youth help organization.
When placed into the chute, a baby will fall into a warm bed and be placed in the program's care, said project leader Helder Kaiser. Mothers have eight weeks to rethink their decisions, she said.
The program was devised to give women an alternative to abandoning or even killing their babies when they were unable to care for them or did not want to keep them, Kaiser said.
In the United States, Minnesota has introduced a similar program and Los Angeles is discussing one. A baby drop also exists in South Africa.
There were several abandoned baby cases in Hamburg last year, including one in which a newborn was found dead in a trash container.
Twenty newborns are abandoned in Germany every year, and about half of them die, said Friedhelm Guethoff of the Children's Protection Agency in Wuppertal.
"The women in these panicked situations had secret pregnancies because there were massive family conflicts involved," he said. These women gave birth in bathrooms and parks and feel they need to get rid of their babies before anyone finds out, he said.
With the project launch three weeks away, it was still unclear if the city government endorsed the project.
Conservative local politicians criticized the project yesterday as inhuman.
"Charges must be brought against the first person who leaves their child there," said Viviane Spethmann of Christian Democrats.
But local Roman Catholic bishop Hans-Jochen Jaschke said the project was a good sign for society.
"Every person needs a chance to live," he said. "It's always better to help people than to condemn them."
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