Many of the refugees who leave Kosovo bring tales of atrocities committed against ethnic Albanian civilians.
CNN: Annan defends U.N. refugee aid, says agency 'overwhelmed'
Ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova was reported to be in hiding, his home burned, Shea said.
Ethnic Albanian militants ambushed and killed eight Macedonian soldiers there in April, The Associated Press reported.
Colonel Blagoja Markovski said 22 Macedonian civilians were abducted by ethnic Albanian insurgents in villages around Tetovo.
High Commissioner for Refugees was caught unprepared by the scale of the ethnic Albanian exodus from Kosovo.
CNN: Annan defends U.N. refugee aid, says agency 'overwhelmed'
Authorities claim the sites contain bodies of Macedonian civilians killed by ethnic Albanian insurgents earlier this year.
LONDON, England -- Ousted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic says violence by ethnic Albanian rebels in Macedonia could spread.
But the Party for Democratic Prosperity (PDP), the main ethnic Albanian opposition grouping, said later it needed more time.
However, Mr Clinton rejected criticism of Nato's air war to drive Yugoslav forces out of predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo.
Ethnic Albanian rebels and Serb security forces operating in the Presevo Valley agreed a NATO-brokered ceasefire earlier this week.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Fighting has broken between ethnic Albanian gunmen and Macedonian troops near the Macedonian border with Kosovo.
In a separate incident, international peace forces intervened between Serb and ethnic Albanian crowds in the north-western town of Mitrovica.
Serbia's reformist authorities say the guerrillas are terrorists whose only aim is to join the Presevo Valley onto ethnic Albanian-dominated Kosovo.
He and other politicians representing Macedonia's majority Slavs and the ethnic Albanian minority began a second day of talks on Saturday.
According to the peace deal, Macedonia was to pass increased rights for the ethnic Albanian minority in return for the weapons' surrender.
Mr Rugova represents the more moderate wing among Kosovo's ethnic Albanian politicians.
Ethnic Albanian insurgents began fighting Macedonian government forces in February, then agreed to a cease-fire in August in exchange for more rights.
Of the country's 2m people, more than a fifth are ethnic Albanian.
Earlier, he said ethnic Albanian rebels must be convinced that the reform process they say they want can be achieved by democratic means.
The European Union warned the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo last week that they faced international isolation unless attacks on Serbs were halted.
Tension between Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority and remaining ethnic Serbs has led to violence in recent years, notably around customs posts in northern Kosovo.
Tension between Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority and remaining ethnic Serbs has led to violence in recent years, notably along the northern border with Serbia.
Tension between Kosovo's ruling ethnic Albanian majority and remaining ethnic Serbs has resulted in violence in recent years, notably along the northern border with Serbia.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but many of the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo have refused to recognise the authority of its mainly ethnic Albanian government.
The government has accused the rebels of using civilians as human shields in their five-month-old campaign for greater rights for the Balkan state's ethnic Albanian minority.
Ethnic Albanian rebels said they were back in control of Macedonian villages northeast of the capital Skopje that they had been forced from earlier by the army.
The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo reached a tentative EU-mediated deal in Brussels on Friday that would give Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership authority over rebel Kosovo Serbs.
KUKES, Albania (CNN) -- Ethnic Albanian refugees seeking shelter from the war raging in neighboring Kosovo are coming under increasing pressure to move out of crowded border camps.
Despite the clashes, the leading ethnic Albanian politician in Macedonia expressed optimism about negotiations to end the crisis and head off a full-scale war in the Balkan country.
The gun battle with Macedonian troops is the latest in a series of reported clashes with ethnic Albanian militants belonging to a group called the Army for National Liberation.
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