Efforts to defuse Kosovo crisis intensify amid more protests

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Radul Radovanovic, The Associated Press ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) - International efforts to defuse a crisis in Kosovo intensified Wednesday as ethnic Serbs held more protests in a northern town where recent clashes with NATO-led peacekeepers sparked fears of renewed conflict in the troubled region. Hundreds of Serbs repeated at a rally their demand for the withdrawal from northern Kosovo of the special police and ethnic Albanian officials who were elected to mayor's offices in votes overwhelmingly boycotted by Serbs. The crowd then spread a huge Serbia n flag outside the city hall in the town of Zvecan. The rising tensions...