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KOSOVO: CONCERN OVER SETTLEMENT OF SERBIAN REFUGEES
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
The international community has expressed growing concern over the settlement of thousands of Serbian refugees in the tinderbox region of Kosovo in southern Yugoslavia.
Around four-thousand refugees have already...
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YUGOSLAVIA: IBRAHIM RUGOVA CALLS FOR A NO FLY ZONE OVER KOSOVO
Albanian/Nat
Ibrahim Rugova, the leading Kosovo Albanian politician, is calling on foreign powers to declare a no-fly zone over Kosovo to halt Serbian forces.
His call was issued after France warned that military intervention may be the...
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Albania/Kosovo-Refugees flee fighting
More of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians on Monday (15/6) continued to flee to the Padesh region of neighbouring Albania. After bringing their families to safety across the border in Albania, ethnic Albanian fighters were returning to Kosovo to...
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ALBANIA: PRESIDENT BERISHA TO PRESS AHEAD WITH ELECTION LAW
Albanian/Nat
Albania's President Sali Berisha has announced he will press ahead with an election law denounced by political rivals who say it favours his ruling party.
The move comes amid mounting international criticism and opposition...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO: FLOOD OF REFUGEES CONTINUES
Eng/Albanian/Nat
The steady stream of refugees passing into Macedonia from Kosovo shows no sign of slowing.
Ten-thousand more refugees arrived in the last 36 hours and another 100-thousand may on their way to the border.
The U-N-H-C-R...
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KOSOVO: US AMBASSADOR HOLBROOKE
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Senior U.S. official Richard Holbrooke announced this evening that he will meet Vojislav Kostunica on Wednesday in Skopje to discuss the status and situation of Kosovo.
Mr Holbrooke also urged the United Nations on...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: SEVERELY DEPLETED FOOTBALL TEAM RETURN HOME
Italian/Nat
A severely depleted Albanian football team returned home to Tirana after a brief tour abroad - eight players and their trainer are seeking political asylum in Europe.
Players from two Albanian squads - the national and...
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ALBANIA: GOVERNMENT OPPOSITION PROTEST ENDS PEACEFULLY
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Albanian opposition protestors have defied a ban and held a peaceful rally in the centre of Tirana, watched by heavily armed state security forces.
The Interior Ministry ordered troops to open fire without warning if...
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ALBANIA: KLA VOLUNTEER FIGHTERS ARRIVE AT DURRES
Ital/German/Span
More volunteer fighters for the KLA have been arriving in Albania, bound for the front line.
The latest detachment - drawn from ethnic Albanian communities across Europe - arrived in the port of Durres on Sunday.
This...
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ITALY: KOSOVO CRISIS: ITALIAN TROOPS LEAVE FOR ALBANIA
English/Nat
Italian troops have left Italy by ship, bound for Albania where they will add to NATO's ground presence there.
The 500 soldiers left on a transport ship which is also loaded with medicine, trucks and military supplies.
The...
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Albania celebrates NATO membership
1. Wide of airplane on tarmac
2. Wide of Albania's President Bamir Topi and Prime Minister Sali Berisha getting out of plane
3. Wide of Topi and Berisha receiving flowers
4. Wide of honour guard saluting with swords
5. SOUNDBITE:...
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KOSOVO: PRISTINA: BOMB EXPLOSION ROCKS CAPITAL (2)
Albanian/Nat
A bomb has exploded in the heart of Pristina, the capital of the troubled Kosovo province.
No one was hurt in the explosion but buildings and cars were damaged.
Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova said tensions were mounting in...
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MACEDONIA: ELIZABETH DOLE VISITS REFUGEE CAMP (V)
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VOICED BY: Vera Frankl
After visiting refugees in Macedonia on Friday, Elizabeth Dole said she wanted people in the United States to feel the outrage that she feels.
The presidential hopeful said it was unthinkable that...
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Fans react after drone incident leads to violence and forces abandonment of match
UEFA (European football's governing body) says it is opening disciplinary cases against the Serbian and Albanian football associations over the fighting between players and fans that led to their European Championship qualifier in...
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USA - Vranitzky addresses UN
The special representative to Albania from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Tuesday (17/6) that the mandate for international troops in Albania must be extended.
WS Presser;
Special Representative to...
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KOSOVO: MITROVICA: ETHNIC ALBANIANS MARCH INTO SERB AREA
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A large crowd of ethnic Albanians on Wednesday marched into the Serb sector of the Kosovo city of Mitrovica.
Although there were no reports of open violence or casualties, the march highlighted continuing tensions in the...
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ALBANIA: KUKES: FAMILY TAKES IN 43 KOSOVAR REFUGEES
Albanian/Nat
An Albanian family in a village close to Kukes has taken in 43 refugees, sharing what little it has in the way of food and clothing.
The expulsions from Kosovo have particularly hit Albania, where more than 350-thousand...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO: CLARK SPEAKS ON CAPTURED SERB
English/Nat
NATO's Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark has revealed that the U-S authorities have in their custody a Serb soldier who is now a prisoner of war.
It's believed that the man was originally captured by the K-L-A (Kosovo...
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ALBANIA: PRESIDENT BERISHA AGREES TO A COALITION & NEW ELECTIONS
English/Nat
With southern Albania slipping away from his control town by town, President Sali Berisha agreed Sunday to a broad coalition government and new elections.
Berisha also held talks with the Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: KOSOVO REFUGEES LATEST (3)
English/Nat
The refugee crisis in Macedonia is worsening by the hour.
With tens of thousands now trying to flee the fighting in Kosovo, massive crowds continue to grow.
Most have no money, no food and no possessions and several need...
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Kosovo - Albanians refuse talks with Serbs
Suspicious Kosovo Albanians are continuing to rebuff Serbia over talks on the future of the province and students have called fresh street protests in Pristina in defiance of riot police. Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova on Friday...
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BELGIUM: NATO MEMBERS GATHER TO DISCUSS KOSOVO CRISIS
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NATO Defence Ministers have gathered in Brussels for a second day of scheduled talks and the item topping the agenda is the deepening crisis in Kosovo.
The ministers have agreed to stage a display of air power around...
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BELGIUM: KOSOVO CRISIS: UNHCR/NATO PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata has confirmed that 525-thousand ethnic Albanians have fled Kosovo.
But, speaking at a news conference in Brussels, she could not say how many Kosovars remained...
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Albania - Assassination attempt on Berisha
Hopes are fading that Albania's elections will be able to go ahead later this month in the wake of an assassination attempt on President Sali Berisha on Wednesday (4/6).
During an election campaign meeting at Rrushbull what appears to...