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CLEAN : Bringing breastfeeding back to Serbia
Serbia has become a leading example of how to boost early breastfeeding rates with vocal bloggers women's activists and doctors driving a campaign to overhaul the Balkan country's once dismal state of maternity care (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : EU pledges 100,000 places in migrant reception centres (2)
Some 100,000 places in reception centres will be provided along the Balkans migrant route starting in Greece to help the EU cope better with the historic influx European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker says (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : EU pledges 100,000 places in migrant reception centres
Some 100,000 places in reception centres will be provided along the Balkans migrant route starting in Greece to help the EU cope better with the historic influx European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker says (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : Austrian Railways suspends Hungary services due to migrants
Austrian Railways has suspended services to Hungary as it struggles to cope with thousands of migrants arriving from over the border after travelling up through the Balkans, with Austrian police saying thousands more refugees could enter...
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US envoy on Kosovo-Serbia relations, China's regional efforts
A top US official on Friday urged Kosovo and Serbia to resume dialogue on normalising their ties, saying the issue has an enormous impact on their people and the broader region.
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CLEAN : Chinese tourists say I do to Serbia
Far from the capital over in western Serbia locals in the tiny picturesque holiday village of Gostoljublje have found a way to profit from a huge boom in Chinese tourists to the Balkan state (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Albanian Prime Minister meets earthquake affected residents
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama meets with residents and municipal officials in Thumane one of the Albanian cities most affected by a powerful earthquake that struck the Balkan country leaving several dead and hundreds injured (Footage...
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CLEAN : Thousands pray in protest against Montenegro religion law
Thousands of followers of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro gather for a mass prayer and protest march against a new law that has spiked tensions in the tiny Balkan state (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Invasive blue crabs pinch pockets of Albanian fishermen
The blue crab's colourful claws are pretty but dangerous: ripping up fishing nets and upsetting ecosystems off Albania's coast, the invasive species is a source of daily anguish for Balkan fishermen struggling to make ends meet (Footage...
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CLEAN : N.Macedonia: right-wing leader Mickoski votes in parliamentary elections
The leader of the Macedonian right-wing party, VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, is voting in the early parliamentary elections, organised in the second wave of the new coronavirus epidemic in the Balkan country (Footage by AFPTV via Getty...
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CLEAN : Montenegro's opposition leader claims victory in parliamentary elections
The leader of the main pro-Serb opposition force in Montenegro, Zdravko Krivokapic, claims victory in the parliamentary elections over the pro-Western President Milo Djukanovic who has ruled the small Balkan country for nearly three...
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CLEAN : Migrant families camp in front of crowded reception centre in Bosnia
Many families, especially from Afghanistan, camp in front of a reception center for migrants near Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Greek olive harvest becomes a family affair due to labour shortage
Greek olive oil manufacturers are having to rely more than ever on family members to help harvest olives, as a result of a shortage of labourers - mostly from the Balkans - who have not been able to help with the harvest due to...
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CLEAN : New wave of epidemic in Bosnia, sharp rise in deaths
Morgues in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, are full these days, hospitals are saturated: Bosnia is facing a new wave of the coronavirus epidemic while the quantities of vaccines that have arrived so far in this poor Balkan country are...
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CLEAN : 'Vaccine tourists' flock to Serbia for free Covid-19 jab
People from throughout the Balkans queue outside a vaccination centre in Belgrade to receive a Covid-19 vaccine after the country's authorities authorised foreigners to receive the jab (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : First voters cast their ballots in Albania's parliamentary elections
The first voters in Albania's parliamentary elections cast their ballots at a school in Tirana, as the country chooses between Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is seeking a third term, and a disparate opposition determined to...
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VOICED : Merkel says CDU unlikely to form next German government
At an informal summit at Brdo Castle in Slovenia, involving European Union heads of state and Western Balkan leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that although Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Armin Laschet is determined...
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VOICED : Policía de Colombia vincula al clan del capturado Otoniel con cinco mafias en el mundo
El Clan del Golfo, el principal cartel de la cocaína en Colombia que encabezaba el detenido Otoniel, tiene una red de tráfico que se extiende a 28 países donde opera en alianza con mafias mexicanas, italianas y de los Balcanes, reveló el...
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CLEAN : Political expert and Bulgarians react after government loses no-confidence vote
Political analyst Daniel Smilov and residents of Bulgarian capital Sofia react after Bulgaria's government loses a no-confidence vote in parliament, filed by the opposition, bringing fresh political turmoil in the Balkan country that...
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CLEAN : 'We can live together': church helps bridge Bosnia's deep divisions
Decades after bloody fighting between Catholics and Muslims ripped apart Bosnia's Bugojno, a new church has provided a rare opportunity to bridge the divides in the deeply fractured Balkan country (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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New anti-migrant fence erected between Bulgaria and Turkey
A new stretch of razor wire fencing has been put up along the Bulgaria-Turkey border to stop migrants crossing into Europe, amid fears the EU member could become a major transit hub after countries along the main western Balkan migrant...
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CLEAN : Croatians worry about switch to euro amidst soaring inflation
Croatia hopes that its upcoming switch to the euro will bring the Balkan country some semblance of protection amid soaring inflation and precarious geopolitical headwinds rattling Europe (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : German Interior Minister opens meeting with Western Balkan states
Nancy Faeser, German Minister of the Interior, opens the meeting with her counterparts from the Western Balkan countries and some other EU countries (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Scholz welcomes participating heads of state for Western Balkans Summit
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes the participating heads of state for the Western Balkans Summit in Berlin (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)