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FRANCE: PARIS: KOSOVO PEACE TALKS COLLAPSE LATEST
Eng/French/Nat
The collapse of Kosovo peace talks has brought closer the prospect of NATO airstrikes to force the Serb-led Yugoslav government to agree to the accord, which includes 28 thousand NATO-led troops to enforce it.
U- S envoy...
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Albania - Vranitzky arrives
Franz Vranitzky, former Austrian Chancellor and representative of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation, said on Wednesday (25/6) that he views the forthcoming Albanian elections as the route out of the violence that has torn...
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ALBANIA: FIRST FRENCH SOLDIERS ARRIVE AT PORT OF DURRES
Eng/French/Nat
The first 120 French soldiers landed in the Albanian port of Durres Sunday, ahead of a multinational force which will secure ports and the airport to allow safe passage for humanitarian aid to impoverished...
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Kosovo/Albania - Border unrest
The OSCE ambassador to Albania visted the town of Qafe Morina on the border between Albania and Serbia and met refugees from Kosovo. Europe's Organization for Security and Cooperation is planning to set up a permanent post in...
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MACEDONIA: US SENATORS VISIT
English/Nat
A group of U-S senators saw the humanitarian disaster in the Balkans for themselves on Sunday when they toured a refugee camp in Macedonia.
After being dispatched to the region by Senate majority leader Trent Lott and...
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Albania - Second round of elections
Albanians went to the polls for the second round of legislative elections on Sunday (6/7), with Socialist leader Fatos Nano confident that he will be the country's next prime minister.
Calm and a low turnout characterised the second...
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ALBANIA: INTERNATIONAL TROOPS AID TO PROTECT ELECTION OFFICIALS
Natural Sound
International troops are patrolling the Albanian capital, Tirana, after the government asked for help to protect international election officials.
This followed a shoot-out between police and royalists on Thursday in front...
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Disagreement on Kosovo mars news briefing as Albanian PM Rama meets Serbian PM Vucic
Serbian and Albanian officials clashed on Monday after what were intended to be icebreaking talks, following decades of tensions between the Balkan foes that have been further fuelled by a recent drone incident at a football...
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Albania - Update on situation
The new Albanian Prime Minister, Bashkim Fino of the main opposition Socialist Party, said on Wednesday (12/3) that he hoped his appointment would be a first step to finding a way out of the crisis gripping the country.
Fino met...
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ALBANIA: TRAUMA COUNSELLING KOSOVO REFUGEES
Albanian/Nat
Four young medical students based in Albania are working as volunteer counsellors to the traumatised victims of war in Kosovo.
The four, all Kosovars themselves, moved to Tirana to study as doctors before the refugee crisis...
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ALBANIA: ALLEGED SERB INCURSIONS INTO ALBANIA
English/Nat
Serb infantry troops crossed into Albania on Tuesday, seized control of a border village, and fought a running battle with border police and Albanian soldiers, according to Albania's information minister.
Yugoslavia denied...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: FLIGHT CARRYING AID FOR REFUGEES ARRIVES
English/Nat
The first flight carrying relief for refugees from Kosovo has arrived in the Albanian capital, Tirana, from Sarajevo.
The leading U-N aid agency in the Bosnian capital and NATO set up a limited airlift, carrying tents, mat...
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ALBANIA: VOTING IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS BEGINS UPDATE
Albanian/Nat
It's election day in Albania -- where more than 15-hundred people have died in months of violent anarchy.
Organisers hope the parliamentary elections are the first step in restoring order.
But whoever takes power will have...
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ALBANIA: FUNERAL OF KLA SOLDIER
Albanian/Nat
The Kosovo Liberation Army has buried one of its own, along the war-torn border between Albania and Kosovo.
The soldier, identified as Zaim Rama, was killed two days ago but K-L-A soldiers won't give the exact location or...
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ALBANIA: DURRES: MULTINATIONAL SECURITY MISSION: FRENCH ARRIVALS
French/Nat
Hundreds of French soldiers landed at the Albanian port of Durres Tuesday in the first major step of a multinational aid operation aimed at bringing relief to impoverished Albanians.
The 5-thousand-ton (4,500-metric-ton)...
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Albania - Voting in Vlore
There was some signs of disruption as voters in Albania's
volatile southern region began voting in legislative elections
on Sunday (29/6).
In Vlore, the port town which saw some of the worst
unrest during the country's recent armed...
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Candlelight vigil following deadly protest
1. Wide of site of violent protests
2. Mid of mourners gathered at site
3. Various of people lighting and leaving candles and flowers at makeshift memorial
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Aldo Merkoci, Tirana resident:
"This should be a...
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ALBANIA: MULTINATIONAL SECURITY MISSION: TROOP BUILD UP CONTINUES
Italian/Nat
Armoured vehicles and trucks rolled off the Italian naval vessel San Marco in the Albanian port of Durres on Thursday.
The troops are part of the Italian-led multinational force on a mission to bring stability to the...
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USA: KOSOVO CRISIS: NATO: NEIGHBOURS
English/Nat
The Kosovo crisis and the effect it is having on its neighbouring countries dominated the final day of the NATO summit in Washington.
NATO leaders met their counterparts from the seven countries which surround Yugoslavia to...
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ALBANIA: 400 TONS OF HUMANITARIAN FOOD AID ARRIVES
English/Nat
400 hundred tons of aid arrived in Albania's western port of Durres, Tuesday as French, Italian and Spanish troops also disembarked.
The boat was full of vital supplies including wheat, flour, soy beans and vegetable...
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ALBANIA: GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY GIVING AWAY WORKS OF ART
Albanian/Nat
The Albanian government has been accused of illegally taking works of art out of the country's museums and offering them as gifts to foreign leaders.
A former museum director claims hundreds of precious and priceless...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: ATROCITIES LATEST
Eng/Albanian/Nat
More and more evidence is emerging that Serbian forces in Kosovo have been systematically killing ethnic Albanian refugees making their way to the borders.
Two events are being collaborated time and again by refugees'...
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NEWS FEATURE Fear of blockades of water, electricity by Serbia
Gazivoda
1. Wide of helicopter flying over Gazivoda lake in northern part of Kosovo
2. Various of lake
Zubin Potok
3. Intersection in village of Zubin Potok
4. Wide of main street
5. Close up of banner reading (Albanian) 'Save Water'
6....
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ITALY: AUTHORITIES TO PREPARE FOR ALBANIANS REFUGEES
Italian/Eng/Nat
Kosovo Albanian refugees are continuing to pour into neighboring territories, with the tens of thousands in Albania overwhelming the meagre services available in one of the world's poorest countries.
In Italy, the...