Kosovo earns Olympic recognition, Serbia furious


A Monaco's policeman walks past the Olympic rings during the opening of the 127th International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Monaco December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

MONACO (Reuters) - Kosovo was granted full International Olympic Committee membership on Tuesday, rubber-stamping the Balkan region's first Games appearance at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 but angering Serbia, who accused the IOC of political bias.

The region, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, a decade after NATO went to war to halt the massacre and expulsion of Albanians by Serbian forces waging a two-year counter-insurgency under late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, became the 205th member of the IOC

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