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ALBANIA: MEN RELEASED FROM SERBIAN DETENTION CENTRE
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Hundreds of ethnic Albanian men, released from Serbian detention on Saturday, spent their first night out of Kosovo in the border town of Kukes.
The men, once feared to have been killed, were looked after by U-N-H-C-R ...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: BONINO ARRIVES TO ASSESS SITUATION
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The European Union's top humanitarian aid official has arrived in Macedonia to assess how the influx of Kosovar refugees is being handled there.
Emma Bonino told reporters in Skopje on Saturday that she was there to look at...
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Albania - International negotiator meets president
International mediator for Albania Franz Vranitzky has held talks with Albanian President Sali Berisha, and urged the Albanian government and rebel leaders holding much of the south of the country to begin talks to pave the way for...
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ALBANIA: ARRIVAL OF NATO APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTERS
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Thirteen U-S Apache helicopter gunships arrived in Albania on Wednesday, signalling an escalation in NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia.
At least two-dozen of the low-flying, anti-tank attack helicopters are expected to...
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ITALY: ROME: POPE JOHN PAUL II CONDUCTS EASTER SUNDAY MASS
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Thousands of people have attended an Easter Sunday Mass conducted by Pope John Paul the Second in St Peter's Basilica, Rome.
Pope John Paul II has highlighted the conflict in Zaire and Albania this Easter.
Eleven people...
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Aid distributed, PM visits flood-affected areas
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has pledged to compensate residents in southern Albania for the recent damage cause by floodwaters.
On Sunday, Rama visited areas in the region of Fier, where days of heavy rainfall have caused the river...
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Albania - Fatos Nano holds press conference
Embattled Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano on Wednesday (16/9)
ruled out negotiations with opposition supporters seeking his
removal instead he threatened to do everything he could to remove Sali Berisha's parliamentary immunity and...
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KOSOVO: SERBIANS WITHIN KOSOVO PLAN TO HOLD ELECTIONS
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The international community has been thrown into disarray by the announcement that Serbia plans to hold elections in Serb-populated enclaves within Kosovo.
U-N Administrator for Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, has yet to to...
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ALBANIA: HEAD OF UNHCR OGATA VISIT
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U-N High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata was in the Albanian border town of Kukes on Thursday, there to encourage local officials to continue allowing waves of Kosovo refugees into the area.
Earlier, Ogata met with...
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Macedonia: Refugees: hundreds of ethnic Albanians flee the country
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As fighting intensifies in Macedonia, hundreds of ethnic Albanians, mainly women and children, fled the country on Monday to seek refuge just across the border in Albania.
Most live in or near Tetovo, where most of the...
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Albania - Armed guards protect hospital
Medical personnel in the Albanian town of Sarande staged a demonstration
outside the city's hospital on Wednesday (12/3) to demand protection from looters that have been trying to strip the facility of its supplies.
The hospital brought...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO BORDER
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Thousands of refugees were again on the move from within Yugoslavia on Saturday, as Serb forces appeared to be making a final push to clear Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian population amid NATO airstrikes.
Some five-thousand...
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Envoys meet Kosovo Serb leaders on Albanian majority's demand for independence
1. Exterior of European Union (EU) Headquarters
2. Various of EU flags
3. Arrival of the diplomats known as the "troika" (consists of delegates from the EU, US and Russia)
4. Various of "troika" meeting Kosovo Serb leaders
5. Various of...
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FRANCE: KOSOVO ALBANIANS JOINING THE RANKS OF THE KLA
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Kosovo Albanians living in France and French men with ethnic Albanian origins are joining the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army, as the crisis in their homeland worsens.
A group of volunteers, some of whom have French...
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Kosovo - Prayers for peace
Hundreds of Catholic Albanians on Sunday (15/03) gathered for a mass to pray for peace and remember those who died during the Serbian police assault on the village of Prekaz. At Sunday's mass in the Catholic cathedral in Pristina, the...
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ALBANIA: PRESIDENT MEJDANI TOURS ALBANIAN REFUGEE CAMPS
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The Albanian President Rexhep Mejdani has accused Serbia of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the rebellious province of Kosovo.
Mejdani, accompanied by an OSCE representative and US Ambassador Marisa Lino, toured the north...
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ALBANIA: POLICE AND PROTESTORS CLASH IN WORST VIOLENCE TO DATE
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In the worst violence in the Albanian capital in nearly a month, police beat several people and hurled rocks at others in an effort to subdue four thousand anti-government demonstrators on Thursday.
The Interior Ministry...
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ALBANIA: EU MONITORS ARRIVE IN DURRES
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European Union officials ventured to Albania's main seaport Tuesday to assess how to best deliver food and medicine to a country largely gripped by anarchy.
The monitors, on the second day of their visit to Albania, are...
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KOSOVO: MOURNERS GATHER AT HOUSE OF MAN KILLED IN POLICE RAID
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Eyewitnesses say a 60-year-old ethnic Albanian onlooker was killed by police in Kosovo.
The man died during a raid on a student house suspected of harbouring separatist fighters in Pristina.
Early on Tuesday morning, Serb...
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ALBANIA: NATO SENDS TEAM TO HELP REFUGEE CRISIS
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NATO is sending a team to Albania to assess how it can help with the thousands of refugees pouring over the border from Kosovo.
An Albanian government spokesman said the NATO experts would arrive on Monday.
Serb shelling...
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Reax to first meeting between Kosovo and Serbia since 2008 secession
1. Various of Pristina street
2. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Xhemajl Alaj, ethnic Albanian, Vox Pop:
"There's nothing you can agree about with the Serbs. No way! We are not the ones that sparked the wars. We have been living here for so many...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: LEKA ZOGU'S SUPPORTERS OPEN FIRE ON POLICE
Tirana, Albania - July 3, 1997
1. Wide shot man firing rifle
2. Mid shot men ducking, pan across crowds running away, man and woman lying down (gunfire sounds)
3. Mid shot man firing weapon from behind wall as crowds run
4. Wide shot...
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ITALY: COAST GUARDS INCREASE PATROLS DUE TO ALBANIAN REFUGEES
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Italian coastguards have stepped up their patrols of the waters between Italy and Albania, fearing an influx of Albanian refugees.
The move is in response to the civil unrest in Albania, triggered by the collapse of high-...
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ALBANIA: HOPES RAISED FOR RELEASE OF KOSOVAR ALBANIANS (V)
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The release of prominent Human Rights activist Flora Brovina from a Serb jail has raised hopes that more than 800 Kosovar Albanians, still detained in Serbia, will be freed.
APTN has visited Djakovica, 90 west of...