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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: SERBS FIRE ARTILLERY AT THE BORDER - UPDATE
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Attempts by the Kosovo Liberation Army to open a new supply corridor into Kosovo have drawn sharp responses from Serbian forces in the embattled Serbian province.
Even though Yugoslavia said it accepted the principles laid...
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ITALY: BRINDISI: ITALIAN & SPANISH NAVY VESSELS LEAVE FOR ALBANIA
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Italian and Spanish navy vessels left the Italian port of Brindisi Monday night to cross the Adriatic to the Albanian port of Durres.
The ships carried troops to be deployed in the turbulent Balkan state as part of a...
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ALBANIA: LATEST SITUATION
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Vlora, Saranda, Limjon & Delvina Southern Albania. March 7th and 8th 1997
Vlora
1. High shot of the town
2. Wide shot of Vlora, people gathered in square
3. Bread being sold - people grabbing it through fence
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Albania - Arrival OSCE envoy Franz Vranitzky
Former Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, heading a delegation from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, met Albanian President Sali Berisha on Saturday (8/3) for talks on how to end an armed rebellion in southern...
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NETHERLANDS: EU FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS SENDING TROOPS TO ALBANIA
Dutch/French/Nat
European Union (EU) foreign ministers, struggling with the divisive question of whether
to send troops into Albania, decided on Sunday to send a high-level evaluation mission instead.
The ministers were dealing with a...
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Albania-OSCE envoy Vranitzky meets Sali Berisha
Former Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, heading a delegation from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, met Albanian President Sali Berisha on Saturday (8/3) for talks on how to end an armed rebellion in southern...
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ALBANIA: FORTHCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW
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Albania's Socialists are challenging the ruling Democratic Party for control of the country at Sunday's presidential elections.
But with the Socialist leader in prison and former communists banned from standing for office,...
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KOSOVO: SMOLICA: VILLAGERS ENDURE A 2ND DAY OF SHELLING
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Kosovan villages close to the border with Albania have endured a second day of shelling by Yugoslav forces.
As the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic met U-S envoy Richard Holbrooke, his troops continued the clamp-down...
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ALBANIA: MEN RELEASED FROM SERBIAN PRISON LATEST
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Over 400 Kosovar men crossed over the border from Kosovo into Albania on Sunday, bringing with them tales of abuse and torture inflicted upon them by the Serbs.
The men, whose fate and whereabouts has been a mystery for...
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KOSOVO: US ENVOY HOLBROOKE ARRIVES FOR TALKS (2)
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U-S envoy Richard Holbrooke has completed another round of shuttle diplomacy in Kosovo, but says differences of opinion remain between the factions there.
He's had talks with ethnic Albanian leaders to try and secure a...
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Bodies of two Albanian sailors killed in ferry rescue operation arrive home
The bodies of two Albanian sailors, who died earlier on Tuesday during an operation in the Adriatic Sea to secure a stricken Greek ferry, were brought to the Albanian port of Vlore.
A police spokesman said the two were apparently hit by...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: SPANISH CAMP
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After three weeks of hurried construction, the Spanish camp of Hamallaj in Albania has welcomed its first refugees.
The camp is urgently needed as the nearby Italian camp is already overcrowded.
Some Spanish soldiers say...
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ALBANIA: REFUGEE CAMPS LEFT EMPTY AS PEOPLE RETURN TO KOSOVO
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Despite warnings by the United Nations refugee agency U-N-H-C-R, refugees continued to flood across the Albanian border into Kosovo on Sunday.
The United Nations has continually warned against individuals returning...
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At 122 years old Rexha may be the world's oldest woman
1. Wide of of Musa Koci, the nephew of woman claiming to be 122 years old, walking towards house
2. Locals on cart going past house of Koci
3. Wide of Hava Rexha who claims to be 122 years old and family
4. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Musa...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: SERB SOLDIERS BURN VILLAGE
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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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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
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One thousand Kosovar refugees were moved from camps near Kukes to other camps in Albania late on Monday.
Three convoys of refugees in Albanian army trucks, under the protection of Dutch and Belgian NATO troops, were brought...
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Scenes at Brindisi airport, hijacked plane in darkness, police, adds still
AP Photos - No access Canada/Internet
1. STILL of Hakan Ekinci, hijacker
2. Wide of security scanning machines, pan to passengers waiting in airport
3. Mid of two men sitting on seats, waiting, man standing talking on mobile phone
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ALBANIA: NATO MISTAKENLY BOMB POSITIONS INSIDE ALBANIA
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Western journalists on the border between Albania and Kosovo had a narrow escape on Tuesday when NATO bombed the area they were filming in.
Alliance planes mistakenly pounded positions inside Albania, leaving clouds of...
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ITALY: AUTHORITIES CLOSE PORT OF BRINDISI TO ALBANIAN REFUGEES
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Under pressure from the influx of thousands of Albanian refugees the Italian authorities have closed the port of Brindisi - diverting new arrivals to other harbours.
The Italian authorities are struggling to cope with...
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KOSOVO: AIDE TO IBRAHIM RUGOVA SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN SHOOTING
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A close aide of Kosovo's main ethnic Albanian leader has been shot and seriously wounded in what's believed could have been an assassination attempt.
Sabri Hamiti was attacked late on Thursday in front of his house in a...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO: HILLARY CLINTON ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT
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The United States say they will help keep Macedonia's textile industry operating, saving 3-thousand jobs and supplying refugees with clothing.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the U-S first lady, addressed the Macedonian parliament...
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Albania - Arrival of international negotiator
Franz Vranitzky, head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe's mission for Albania, began a two day-visit to the troubled country on Wednesday (16/4). Vranitzky is due to hold separate meetings with Prime...
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KOSOVO: PRISTINA: NATO KOSOVO PRESS CONFERENCE
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NATO has said that it is still talking with the Russians about how exactly they would fit into the alliance's K-FOR peacekeeping force.
The alliance also said power, water and police services are the first priorities for...
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Albania - Update on situation
As the deadline for a rebel ultimatum calling for the resignation of Albanian President Sali Berisha by Thursday (20/3) drew closer, the tattered Albanian army was doing its best to muster its remaining resources.
At a tank battalion...