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ALBANIA: VLORA: VIOLENCE ESCALATES AS PROTESTERS FIRE WEAPONS
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Violence has escalated in the southern Albanian port town of Vlora after anti-government protesters started firing off weapons looted from an army base.
Faced with mob rule, parliament has introduced a state of emergency...
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ALBANIA: U-S'S ALBRIGHT RECEIVES AWARD
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U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has said that the U-S wants Albania to lead the way to a better future in Southeast Europe.
Speaking in the Albanian capital Tirana after her visit to Croatia on Friday, she also...
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ALBANIA: FUNERAL OF ALBANIANS DROWNED IN SINKING OF REFUGEE BOAT
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The funeral took place Sunday of one of the Albanians who drowned in last week's sinking of an Albanian refugee boat in the Adriatic.
Fifty-two-year-old Latif Berberi and three others died and 79 others are still missing...
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MONTENEGRO: ROZAJE: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
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In the eastern Montenegran town of Rozaje on Wednesday, a further 1-thousand ethnic Albanian refugees arrived from Kosovo.
The mainly Muslim refugees came from Drenica and Mitrovica.
The refugees are fleeing their homes and...
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ALBANIA: KUKES: KOSOVO: WALKER VISITS REFUGEES
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The head of the Kosovo Verification Mission has called for a resolution of the Kosovo refugee crisis - before the onset of wintry weather in the Balkans.
William Walker was speaking after visiting a crowded refugee camp in...
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Chinese leaders hold bilat meetings
1. Chinese President Hu Jintao arriving
2. Hu shaking hands with King of Norway, Herald V (the Fifth)
3. Hu shaking hands with Supreme Head of State of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin
4. Hu walking in conference hall
5. Pan across...
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ALBANIA: PRESIDENT BERISHA FEARS WORST IF HIS PARTY IS NOT RE ELECTED
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As Albanians prepare to vote on Sunday in the national elections, Albanian President Sali Berisha said he feared the worst if his party was not re-elected.
Speaking on Saturday in the capital, Tirana, he told reporters he...
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KOSOVO: US ENVOY HILL MEETS IBRAHIM RUGOVA UPDATE
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In a sign of more peaceful times in Kosovo, ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova made his first visit to the province's countryside since assuming a political role nine years ago.
Rugova accompanied U-S envoy Christopher...
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Albania - Refugees continue to leave Kosovo
Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo continued to flow across the border into Albania on Sunday (14/06) one day before operation "Determined Falcon" was set to begin by NATO forces. Refugees who had crossed over the mountain said Serbs...
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ALBANIAN BORDER: SERB SOLDIERS BURN DOWN 2 VILLAGES
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On the same day the Yugoslavian government announced a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Kosovo, Serb soldiers burned down two ethnic Albanian villages near the Albanian border.
President Slobodan Milosevic's government...
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USA: KOSOVAR COMMUNITY REACTION TO KOSOVO SITUATION
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The Kosovar community in New York has been reacting to the news that Serbian troops began their withdrawal from Kosovo and that NATO had ordered an end to the airstrikes over Yugoslavia.
Kosovar Albanians in the United...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: REFUGEES FROM KOSOVO
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Hundreds of Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo have arrived in the Albanian capital of Tirana, bused down from the border area of Kukes. They are the first wave as the Albanian government and international aid agencies try...
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Albania: Talks: Macedonian and Albanian ministers meet on crisis
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The Macedonian and Albanian foreign ministers have met to discuss the mounting crisis over recent clashes with ethnic Albanian rebels.
Paskal Milo, Albania's foreign minister condemned the rebels as extreme terrorists...
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Albania - Berisha meets exiled King for talks
Albanian President Sali Berisha on Friday (18/4) had his first meeting with exiled King Leka Zogu, pretender to the Albanian throne.
Berisha's meeting with Leka took place on the Muslim holy day of Bejram. The president also had talks...
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Albania - Cities in hands of rebels
Six southern Albanian cities on Thursday (6/3) were in the hands of rioters, including Vlore, where the insurrection is based and where civilians have gone on a rampage, burning buildings, looting and seizing army tanks from deserted...
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Albania - Armed rebels take control
Insurgents in southern Albania claimed a major victory over the government on Wednesday (05/03) -- the capture of an army base at Tepelena. The rebels showed off captured tanks, artillery and other heavy weapons, and a huge ammunition...
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ALBANIA: VLORA: REACTION TO OFFER OF ELECTIONS IN 45 DAYS
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In Vlora, one of Albania's southern towns firmly in the grip of the rebels, a waiting game is being played.
Reaction to the news that President Sali Berisha has offered to hold new elections if the rebels lay down their...
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ALBANIA: SPANISH SOLDIER IS BURNT AFTER FALLING ON ELECTRIC CABLE
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A Spanish soldier with the multi-national force in Albania was badly burned on Tuesday, after he fell onto a high-voltage electric cable.
He suffered burns to his back, hands and face after falling while carrying out...
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Albania - Anniversary of death of former leader
A group of about 25 hardline communists on Friday (11/4) commemorated the anniversary of the death of the former stalinist leader of Albania, Enver Hoxha. Mostly elderly, the communists laid floral tributes on the grave and gave the old...
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Albania - Call on government to resign
A new Albanian opposition coalition on Thursday (30/1) called on the government to resign so that early elections can be held to resolve the country's crisis over the failure of get-rich-quick schemes.
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ALBANIA: EXPLOSION ROCKS WEAPONS DEPOT IN REBEL HELD SOUTH
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Several explosions have rocked a weapons depot in rebel-held southern Albania.
Plumes of thick black smoke rose above the barracks in Lazarat, a village near Gjirokastra, Monday.
Eyewitnesses said several houses were...
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KOSOVO: ALBANIAN PROTESTORS CALL FOR INDEPENDENCE
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Thousands of Kosovo Albanians on Saturday staged a huge demonstration calling for independence for the troubled Yugoslav province.
The protest - which offered mass support for militants who are waging a violent struggle...
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Albania - Italian soldier killed in blast
An Italian soldier was killed and three others were injured in Vlore on Wednesday (9/7) in a blast near a military hospital. It was the first fatality for the multinational force deployed in Albania.
Diego Vaira, 20, died when a device...
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ALBANIA : PRESIDENT SALI BERISHA TO VISIT UNITED STATES
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The Albanian president Sali Berisha is on his first official visit to the United States for bi-lateral talks with senior government officials.
Berisha is meeting President Clinton Tuesday to discuss potential channels of...