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Albania - Police beat up members of opposition
Uniformed police from Albania's Special Forces entered a cafe used by
journalists as a meeting point in Tirana on Sunday (9/2) and beat up leading members of the opposition after smashing windows and doors, the politicians said.
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Albania - Military retreats from rebel-held south
As negotiations aimed at forming a new coalition government were held in the Albanian capital, Tirana, on Monday (10/03), tanks were seen being moved north on transporters, as the army withdrew from the south of the country.
The military...
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Kosovo/Albania - Rebel attacks
As NATO Air Forces staged air exercises over Albania on Monday (15/06) designed to intimidate Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic into ending his crackdown in Kosovo, the Yugoslav army continued the battle on the ground. Their targets were...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: GREEK DEFENCE MINISTER TZOHATZOPOULOS ARRIVES
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Greek Defence Minister Akis Tzohatzopoulos arrived in Albania on Monday to visit his troops taking part in an international peace keeping operation in the country.
His visit coincided with Greece's Army Day, when the...
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Albania - Would-be king Leka Zogu departs
Albania's would-be king, Leka Zogu, left the country for his
home in South Africa on Saturday (12/7) after failing to win a
referendum on restoration of the monarchy.
INT of meeting;
SOT King Leka (in Albanian) saying that he was leaving...
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Albania - Rebel groups include young children
Albanian President Sali Berisha could extend a 48-hour truce in the rebel-held south of the country and is also discussing plans for early elections in Albania to defuse the current crisis, OSCE envoy Franz Vranitzky said on...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: US MARINES KILL INTRUDER AT US EMBASSY
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U-S Marines shot dead an off duty Albanian policeman on Sunday as he tried to scale the fence surrounding an American diplomatic compound.
Security guards had tried to stop the man with warning shots, but he fired back...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
Albanian/Nat
The flood of refugees out of the Serb province of Kosovo continued on Monday, when 350 women and children reached the safety of the Albanian border.
The women had been hiding in the hills since fleeing their homes in Kosovo...
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Albania - Greek troops arrive, food aid delivered
The first Greek contingent of the multinational task force in Albania arrived at Tirana airport on Wednesday afternoon (16/4).
In the port of Durres, the World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday unloaded humanitarian aid. Its cargo of...
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ALBANIA: APPEAL FOR MEDICAL AID FOR VICTIMS OF ARMED UPRISING
Albanian/Nat
Albania has appealed for medical aid to treat victims of the armed uprising in the country.
Hospitals have been overrun with children who have been shot and burnt by grenades during the violent anarchy.
Hospitals in...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: CRISIS: MORE REFUGEES CROSS THE BORDER
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U.N. refugee agencies say it appears Serb forces have launched a new expulsion campaign targeting doctors, nurses and other professionals, as thousands of refugees streamed out of Kosovo's second-largest city on Friday.
By...
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ALBANIA: WAVE OF REFUGEES CROSS BORDER FROM KOSOVO
Albanian/Nat
A wave of refugees fleeing the violence in Kosovo crossed the border into Albania on Tuesday, in the first mass movement since the fighting began.
Around 500 people - mostly women and children - arrived in mountain villages,...
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Albania - Election results
Albanian President Sali Berisha on Monday (30/6) conceded the defeat of his Democratic Party to the opposition Socialist Party in weekend elections designed to end four months of chaos in the Balkan country.
Despite warnings from the...
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Albania - Rebellion reaches capital
Looting and the breakdown of law and order continued in the Albanian capital, Tirana, on Thursday (13/03), as Western European embassies organised the evacuation of their citizens. The British embassy asked its nationals to register at...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: NEW SOCIALIST-LED GOVERNMENT IS SWORN IN
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The new socialist-led government of Albania was sworn in on Friday.
It will face the daunting task of bringing order to a lawless country.
At least 18-hundred people have died in violence since March, when the collapse of ...
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Albania/Kosovo - Violence continues/Mass wedding
The Head of the OSCE in Albania, Dan Everts, was in the region on Saturday (02/05) to set up a permanent office at Kukes, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Tirana, in order to monitor the border with the troubled Serbian province of...
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Albania - Illegal immigrants return to vote
More than 800 Albanian illegal immigrants living in Greece arrived in the Albanian port of Vlore on Friday (27/6) to vote in this weekend's elections. The Greek government has given them special permission to make the journey to vote and...
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ALBANIA: NATO TROOPS MILITARY EXERCISES LATEST
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NATO troops from eleven countries began five days of exercises on Monday to prepare the alliance for possible involvement in containing the Kosovo crisis.
The 1-thousand-700 strong force will conduct training for...
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Albania - UN World Food Programme aid
The UN World Food Programme on Saturday (19/4) handed out its
first supplies of food aid for needy people in Albania.
Workers for the UN food agency distributed quantities of wheat
flour, beans and vegetable oil to representatives of...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: KLA SPOKESMAN WEAPONS SPEECH
Albanian/Nat
The K-L-A says it needs weapons to defeat the Serbs in Kosovo.
Speaking in Tirana on Thursday, a spokesman for the Kosovo Liberation Army said the ethnic Albanians can solve their own problems and that NATO's intervention on...
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ALBANIA: KORCA: OSCE ARRIVES FOR RUN UP TO ELECTIONS
Albanian/Nat
An Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) electoral team travelled to the remote southeast Albanian town of Korca on Tuesday in the run up to presidential elections.
O-S-C-E election co-ordinator Tony...
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ITALY: ROME: KOSOVO ALBANIAN LEADER RUGOVA TO GO HOME SOON
English/Nat
The Kosovo Albanian political leader Ibrahim Rugova says he'll return to Kosovo as soon as next week ending his wartime exile.
But the pacifist moderate shunned suggestions of going home to vie for power with the Kosovo...
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Kosovo PM comments on Bush visit to Albania
1. Exterior of government building
2. Close up of sign reading, (English) "The Government of Kosovo"
3. Kosovo's Prime Minister, Agim Ceku, entering news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Agim Ceku, Kosovo's Prime Minister:
"President...
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ITALY: BRINDISI: REFUGEES CONTINUE TO CROSS FROM ALBANIA
Italian/Nat
More than 10-thousand Albanians have fled to Italy and Greece from the chaos gripping their country, the U-N refugee agency said Tuesday.
In addition to the more than seven-thousand Albanians who have crossed the Adriatic Sea...