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EXCLUSIVE NEWS FEATURE Albanian paramilitaries prepare to defend Kosovo
1. Various of armed uniformed men wearing balaclavas walking in the woods
2. Wide of a commander saluting soldiers in the line
3. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Albanian National Army fighter, nicknamed "Commander Preka":
"In the Albanian...
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ALBANIA: SITUATION UPDATE
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Albanian rebels have continued to consolidate their hold on the south of the country, despite an offer by President Sali Berisha to meet many of their demands.
Looting continued in the latest towns to fall into rebel...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: REFUGEES REFUSE TO LEAVE CAMPS
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Few of the 100-thousand Kosovar refugees in Kukes are leaving camps there, despite efforts by the U-N-H-C-R to persuade them to move to safer areas away from the Kosovo-Albanian border.
Officials say a lack of...
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KOSOVO: PRISTINA PROTEST
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Hundreds of protesters gathered in Pristina on Wednesday, outraged that the United Nations is preventing former Albanian president Sali Berisha from visiting Kosovo.
The U-N barred Berisha from visiting Kosovo, saying the...
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WRAP Kosovo Albanians react to Bush's visit to Albania, PM reax
1. Exterior of government building
2. Kosovo's Prime Minister, Agim Ceku, entering news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Agim Ceku, Kosovo's Prime Minister:
"President Bush has said that we don't have to start a new negotiation about...
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ALBANIA: POLITICAL CHAOS CONTINUES: SITUATION UPDATE
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The President of Albania has pardoned the country's last communist leader in an attempt to quell the popular unrest.
An uneasy peace appeared to settle in Albania on Sunday as the country spent the day mourning the victims...
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: BIENNALE II
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Venice, June 10+11
Albanians have been in the news recently for all the worst reasons; war, atrocities; mass purging; mass graves; the whole terrible conflict in Kosovo. How timely then for the annual BIENNALE DI VENEZIA to...
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Albania - Head of OSCE arrives
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) mission to Albania, Franz Vranitzky, was in Tirana on Sunday (8/6) to discuss preparations for elections due later this month.
Vranitzky had a meeting with...
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Polls close in general election, election official, observer comments
1. Election official closing door at polling station
2. Wide of election officials at desk
3. Close of election official telling someone over phone that polling station has closed
4. Mid of Organisation for Security and Co-operation in...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: HELICOPTERS HELP EVACUATE STRANDED US CITIZENS
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The U-S military has for the time being suspended its airlift evacuations from Albania after gunmen on the ground fired at American and Italian helicopters.
Helicopters have so far evacuated hundreds of foreign nationals...
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ALBANIA: ALBANIAN REFUGEES STILL FLEEING VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO
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As the eight leading industrialised nations met in London on Friday, demanding an end to the bloody crackdown in Kosovo, streams of ethnic Albanian refugees were still fleeing the troubled province.
NATO ordered allied...
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ALBANIA: ARMED MEN OPEN FIRE ON GERMAN HELICOPTER
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Armed men have opened fire on a German helicopter evacuating civilians from a military airport on the outskirts of the Albanian capital Tirana.
The men, in a convoy of two armoured vehicles, drove around the air base firing...
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Albania - Protestors clash with police
Thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police in the southern Albanian town of Fier on Friday (14/2) before breaking through police lines to march on government offices.
Some 5,000 poured into the central square of the town...
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Albania - Crisis of confidence
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Albanians are undergoing a crisis of confidence in their government and their fledgling capitalist system. There have been riots and several deaths. The spark was the collapse of so-called...
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ALBANIA: ETHNIC ALBANIANS FLEE SERBIAN MORTAR ATTACKS IN KOSOVO
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Hundreds of ethnic Albanians have continued to flee Serbian mortar attacks in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo for the safety of Albania.
A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said some 37-hundred ethnic...
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Albania - Berisha tries to win back support
The ruling Democratic Party rejected on Wednesday (19/2) the opposition
ex-communists' demand that the government resign before talks can be held between the two sides.
Sali Berisha, meanwhile, went on the offensive Wednesday in a bid to...
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Kosovo/Albania - Kosovo crisis update
The highest ranking U.S. diplomat in former Yugoslavia, Richard Miles, the Charge d'Affaires at the American Embassy in Belgrade visited Decani on Tuesday (9/6). Afterwards he said he was depressed by what he had seen but he didn't know...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: ANGRY CROWD STORM GOVERNMENT OFFICES
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An angry crowd stormed the offices of the Albanian government on Sunday, in a protest at the death of opposition leader Azem Hadjari
Protestors created turmoil across Tirana - setting fire to cars and trading gunfire with...
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Albania - Military build-up along border
As dozens of refugees from Kosovo find refuge in Krume, a small town lost in the mountains of northeastern Albania, near the border with Yugoslavia - there is evidence of an Albanian army military build-up in the town.
Albania has urged...
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Albania - Rebels loot military stores
Anti-government militants in southern Albania were on Thursday (6/3) seen looting military stores and weapons on the road south of Tirana. Rebels in Gjirokaster raided army supplies and took weapons and ammunition.
There was heightened...
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Reaction to invitation to Albania to join NATO
1. Wide shot of Tirana city centre, traffic, opera house - large Albanian and NATO flags hung on front
2. Albanian and NATO flags hanging outside another building
3. Newspaper stand on pavement, woman walks past
4. Close up front page...
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Albania - People flee Vlore
Two-thousand people gathered in Vlore on Wednesday (12/2), but, unlike previous days, they were not confronted by police, and the protests didn't escalate into violence. The city was the scene of anti-government riots earlier this week...
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KOSOVO: ELECTIONS PREVIEW
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The end of a long campaign trail for Kosovo's leading Albanian political figures is drawing to a close.
On October 28th the people of the region will cast their votes in municipal elections, marking the beginning of a...
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Albania - Visit would-be King Leka I
Thousands of Albanians turned out to give Albania's would-be
king a rapturous welcome on Sunday 20/04), during a visit to his
father's birthplace deep in the mountainous interior of the
country.