The clock starts ticking on Monday toward a probable declaration of independence by Kosovo after extra-time negotiations failed to break a deadlock over the future of the breakaway Serbian province.

European Union nations are overcoming their internal divisions over the future of Kosovo as it heads towards independence and will help shape its future, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian military official here on Monday called on all peace movements, advocates of human rights and freedom as well as all those opposing war and terrorism to join Iran in a movement to take Bush to a war tribunal.