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ALBANIA: KUKES: NATO MOVES THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES (2)
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A massive NATO operation is underway to move about 140-thousand refugees from the overcrowded Kukes camp in Albania.
NATO troops have already moved 10-thousand refugees out of the choked region to other camps elsewhere in...
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Albania - Arrival of Italian troops
The first troops of the Italian-led multinational force to help stricken Albania landed at the port of Durres early on Friday morning (11/4).
Later in the morning, more than 20 Italian paratroopers landed at Tirana airport in a single...
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Albania: Collapse Of Investment Pyramids Lead To Armed Rebellion, Switzerland: Dispute Over World War II Jewish Money, France: Stolen Paintings Exhibition, Germany: Anti-Nuclear Protests, Czech Republic
crowds shouting and waving arms
President Sali Berisha speaking
VS protestors and cu Albanian newspapers being read
man arguing with bank teller
MS protestors with old woman lifted above heads
VS violent confrontations with riot police,...
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Albania - Opposition leaders hold press conference
Albania's opposition parties gathered in the capital Tirana on Monday (10/2) to hold a press conference to voice concern over the government's handling of recent demonstrations.
The worst day of violent clashes came on Monday when two...
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ALBANIA: VLORA: HEAVILY ARMED REBELS REMAIN DEFIANT IN CITY
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Rebels in southern Albania have vowed to fight on, despite a government offer of an amnesty to those laying down their arms.
Heavily armed rebels remained defiant in the southern port city of Vlora, the epicentre of the...
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ITALY: KOSOVAR REFUGEES ARRIVE AT BARI
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Some 15-hundred refugees have made it across the Adriatic Sea to reach Italy's southern coast.
The arrivals, coming from Montenegro and Vlora, Albania, are being put in shelters in Italy's Puglia region.
About 500 are in a...
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KOSOVO: PRISTINA: BOMBING ATTACKS: SITUATION UPDATE
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After weeks of NATO bombing and raids by Serb forces, Kosova's capital, Pristina, was quiet on Sunday.
Few people were on the streets - some collected bread and other supplies.
Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova has...
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Albanian PM Rama ends two-day trip to Serbia with visit to ethnic Albanian dominated south
Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama wrapped up a two-day trip to Serbia on Tuesday with a visit to the ethnic Albanian-dominated south.
Rama said in the southern town of Presevo on Tuesday the two countries need to overcome a troubled past...
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KOSOVO: SERBS SHOW OFF LARGE HAUL OF SEIZED WEAPONS
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Serb authorities showed off a large haul of weapons - which they claim were seized at the border from supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
The display was set up as a backdrop to the latest visit by U-S mediator...
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ALBANIA: FOREIGN AID BEGINS TO FLOW INTO COUNTRY
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Foreign aid is now beginning to flow into Albania - with supplies from France the latest to arrive.
Some of the first recipients were mentally handicapped children at a centre in the Albanian capital Tirana.
The Director...
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Albania - Capital's airport is closed
The Albanian capital's airport was closed on Thursday (13/3) for
security reasons, airport officials said. Rinas airport outside Tirana is Albania's only civilian airport.
An anti-government rebellion raging in the southern part of the...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: REFUGEES CONTINUE TO CROSS THE BORDER
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Thousands of Kosovo refugees continued to pour into northern Albania on Friday as Serb forces allegedly continue to shell Albanian border villages further north in Yugoslavia.
It has been the largest influx of ethnic...
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Yugoslavia/Albania - KLA soldier wounded
Fierce overnight fighting in the Kosovo town of Morina, close to the Albanian border, spilled over into Thursday (18/06) morning as the Kosovo crisis continued to escalate. Shelling could still be seen from the Albanian border as a group...
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ALBANIA: NATO AIRSTRIKE ON REFUGEE CONVOY: REACTIONS
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Hundreds of shocked and dazed refugees arrived at a camp in Morini, Albania on Thursday.
Many of them were witnesses to yesterday's NATO attack on their convoy, which killed more than 60 ethnic Albanians as they fled...
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ALBANIA/MACEDONIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: AID ARRIVES FOR REFUGEES (V)
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Humanitarian aid supplies from NATO countries are arriving in Albania, where the capital's airport has become the centre of this massive relief operation
Military teams from the U-S and France flew in on Sunday with supplies...
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ALBANIA: VLORA: ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE
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Albanian opposition parties and rebel leaders say they are renouncing any threats of violence - but are united in their demands that President sali Berisha must step down.
The meeting in the town of Vlora on Friday was...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS UPDATE (2)
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NATO is studying ways and means to put together and manage a major airlift of humanitarian supplies into Albania and Macedonia to help deal with the thousands of Kosovo refugees.
The alliance is working out how to use...
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ALBANIA: KLA CHIEF HASHIM THACI VISIT
Kukes + Morini, Albania. 24 May, 1999
Kukes
1. Helicopter arrives
2. Thaci inside cockpit
3. Thaci and delegation leave helicopter
4. Thaci greeted by Albanian military official
5. Various of children refugees and placard saying "We...
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ALBANIA: ANTI GOVERNMENT PROTESTS CONTINUE UPDATE (2)
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Albanian police manhandled and beat demonstrators Saturday to prevent opposition parties from holding a rally against President Sali Berisha and the collapse of pyramid investment schemes.
Club-swinging police assaulted...
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ALBANIA: NATO PREPARATIONS FOR ARRIVAL OF APACHE HELICOPTERS
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As their political bosses prepare for the 50th anniversary celebrations of NATO, alliance troops near Tirana are preparing for the arrival of another wave of Apache helicopters.
Thirteen U-S Apache helicopter gunships have...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: ATROCITIES (2)
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Refugees from Kosovo continue to spill over the region's borders at a rate of one-thousand an hour, bringing with them horrific stories of Serb brutality.
Ethnic Albanian children with gunshot wounds are shocking evidence of...
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Albania - Foreign aid continues to arrive
Foreign aid continued arriving in Albania on Tuesday (25/3), as a cargo plane carrying 40 tonnes of French food and medicine landed in Tirana. Two months of unrest in Albania has led to severe shortages of food and medical...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: ARRIVAL OF 3000 US NATO TROOPS
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The first of 3-thousand U-S troops arrived in the Albanian capital Tirana on Monday, and were immediately transferred elsewhere for training.
They are the first NATO fighting unit to be sent to the area.
All previous...
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ALBANIA: PRESIDENT SALI BERISH SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
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Albanian President Sali Berish has survived an assassination attempt.
A man threw what looked like a hand grenade on Wednesday as Berisha addressed an election rally in near the port city of Durres, about 20 miles (32...