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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS UPDATE (2)
English/Nat
Of the thousands of Albanian refugees streaming out of Kosovo, those who arrive at Qafe E Prushit are among the most miserable.
The mountainous border area between Kosovo and Albania is virtually inaccessible to Western...
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Police, grandfather on arrest of man in US jihad case
AP Television
Pristina - 30 July 2009
1. Various of Kosovo police headquarters
2. Kosovo police press officer Besim Hoti walking out of building
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Besim Hoti, Kosovo police press officer:
"Kosovo Police had the...
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Kosovo - Fighting between Serbs and Albanians
Tension and violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians escalated in Kosovo on Tuesday (02/06) following a fight two days ago in which at least 20 people were killed.
00.00 WS house under shell fire (UPSOT 6 secs)
00.12 CU flames burning...
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Albania/Greece - Five Year Sentence For Espionage
An Albanian court sentenced five ethnic Greeks to jail terms of up
to eight years on Wednesday (7/8) after an espionage trial that
has triggered fears of another Balkans conflict. Greece reacted
swiftly, recalling its ambassador from...
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KOSOVO: REFUGEES FLEE AS SERBS REACT TO NATO ATTACKS
Macedonia/ Kosovan border and Dobrune, Albanian/ Kosovan border - March 25 and 26, 1999
POOL - Dobrune, Albanian/ Kosovan border, March 25
1. Refugees walking up tracks past OSCE vehicles
2. Refugees getting into OSCE car
3. Various of...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: POLICE PREVENT ANTI-GOVERNMENT RALLY
Natural Sound
Albanian police have prevented people from gathering in the capital Tirana for an anti-government rally.
One of the rally organisers, trade union leader Azem Hajdari, was taken away by the Albanian secret police.
But in...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA/VLORA: VIOLENT RIOTS CONTINUE
Natural Sound
The Albanian parliament has declared a state of emergency in the wake of worsening riots throughout the country.
Earlier President Sali Berisha - who's facing his worst political crisis since he came to power in 1992 -...
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Albania/Italy - State of emergency
Dozens of civilians are believed to have been killed and a policeman burnt to death during clashes in the south of Albania, while the international community gropes to defuse the crisis.
Gun-toting challengers to President Sali Berisha,...
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ALBANIA: VLORA: TENSIONS HIGH FOLLOWING VIOLENT CLASHES
Nat/Sound
The shooting of an off-duty police officer and an explosion in another officer's home raised tensions Thursday in the Albanian city of Vlora.
The southern port city has recently been the scene of violent clashes over losses...
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(V) ALBANIA: RELIEF: AID FLIGHTS
Natural Sound
U-S aid is being distributed in Albania, while authorities struggle to cope with the influx of around 200-thousand refugees from the shattered province of Kosovo.
Flown by helicopter from the Albania capital, Tirana, the...
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USA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER IBRAHIM RUGOVA VISIT
Albanian/Nat
Ethnic Albanian leader, Ibrahim Rugova is in the American capital trying to win the approval of U-S President Clinton.
Rugova hopes Clinton will support for his people's battle in Kosovo to sever ties with Serbia.
The...
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Albania - Parliamentary Elections
Early indications suggested that the ruling Democratic Party had a
clear lead in Albania's parliamentary elections on Sunday (26/5).
An exit poll carried out in the capital Tirana, half way through
polling, showed the Democrats with...
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Albania - Violence breaks out in Tirana
Albanian riot police on Saturday (8/2) stopped an attempt to hold an
anti-government rally which authorities had banned. They arrested several opposition leaders. Some of the rally's organisers were beaten up.
WS riot police;
police...
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MONTENEGRO: KOSOVO: REFUGEES CROSS THE BORDER
Albanian/Serbo-Croat
Refugge women fleeing from Kosovo have told APTN that their men were detained at a checkpoint on the Yugoslav-Montenegrin border.
The women said their buses were crossing the Yugoslav army checkpoint at Tuzi when...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: REFUGEES MOVED FROM OVERCROWDED CAMPS
English/Nat
The Albanian government and aid agencies are continuing to move as many refugees as possible from the overcrowded camp at Kukes, near Albania's border with Kosovo.
The aim is to get them to safer areas further south in...
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Kosovo - Albanians demonstrate for independence
Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians took to the streets of Pristina on Saturday (09/05) to decry Serbian rule and call for Kosovo's independence. The crowd gathered in the centre of Pristina and released doves of peace into the...
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ALBANIA: SARANDA: PROTESTS AGAINST LOOTING BY REBEL INSURGENTS
Albanian/Nat
Albania's newly installed Prime Minister, Bashkim Fino, met with a rebel leader Wednesday before heading to the capital to take up his post.
In the South, Albania's various rebel councils, who on Tuesday united to form an ...
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ALBANIA: PANDELI MAJKO NOMINATED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER
English/Nat
Albania's Socialist Party has decided to nominate its general secretary and parliamentary group leader Pandeli Majko as the new prime minister.
Majko said he heard opposition leader Sali Berisha has accepted his candidacy....
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ALBANIA: BONINO VISITS AS FOREIGN AID ARRIVES
Natural Sound
European Union humanitarian aid commissioner Emma Bonino arrived in Tirana on Wednesday to meet with Albanian President Rexhep Meidani and to meet some of the refugees from neighbouring Kosovo.
Aid agencies estimate...
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Albania - Investors reimbursed
More of the hundreds of thousands of Albanians who lost money in collapsed pyramid investment schemes started collecting partial refunds win a government-organised payback on Wednesday (5/2).
The state-owned Savings Bank of Albania has...
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ITALY: ITALIAN & FRENCH TROOPS PREPARE TO LEAVE FOR ALBANIA
French/Nat
More Italian troops and the first contingent of French soldiers are in the Italian port of Brindisi on Saturday preparing to join the international force in Albania.
An advance team of 120 Italian soldiers arrived in Albania...
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Albania - Second round of election
Voting in the second round of Albania's elections began early on Sunday morning (6/7). The Democratic Party of President Sali Berisha is desperate to increase its share of seats in parliament; in last weekend's first round, it won just...
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ALBANIA: KUKES: KOSOVO: BORDER: ASHDOWN VISITS REFUGEE CAMP
Eng/Albanian/Nat
The leader of Britain's Liberal Democrat Party, Paddy Ashdown, has travelled to the Kukes refugee camp in Albania to see the situation first hand.
He says he found conditions in the camp horrendous and he says more...
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Kosovo Albanians sport moustaches to emulate 1912 independence leaders
1. Close of girl brandishing fake moustache
2. Mid of girls with fake moustache and bearded man
3. Mid of men with moustaches and traditional Albanian white cone shaped hats
4. Close of two men with moustaches
5. SOUNDBITE: (English)...