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KOSOVO: HOLBROOKE KOSOVO CRISIS TALKS UPDATE
English/Nat
United States envoy Richard Holbrooke will hold more talks in Belgrade on Saturday night after negotiations with ethnic Albanian leaders in the Kosovan capital Pristina earlier in the day.
This is Holbrooke's second mission...
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Kosovo - Police operation in Prekaz
Serbian police said a police operation in the village of Prekaz, in the central Kosovo region of Drenica, was still underway Saturday afternoon (7/3). The police action was necessary as a "large number of civilians" had been killed by...
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KOSOVO: LUBENIC: ALBANIAN MEMORIAL
Albanian/Nat
Hundreds of ethnic Albanians have attended a memorial service in the Kosovan village of Lubenic, for 80 people killed by Serb soldiers one year ago.
Witnesses say Serb army tanks surrounded the village on the morning of the...
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Albania/Greece - Hundreds flee country
The situation was tense at the border between Greece and Albania on Wednesday (05/3) as Greek police struggled to cope with dozens of Albanians trying to flee the chaos in their country.
Greek soldiers checking cars at border;
people...
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Albania - Aid plane arrives
The first humanitarian flight from Bosnia to Albania landed in the Albanian capital Tirana Saturday (13/6) - the start of a four-day airlift. The C-130 Hercules transporter, supplied by the Norwegian government, carried non-foodstuffs...
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Albania - Funeral march turns into protest
Angry crowds in the Albanian port town of Vlore set fire to the local headquarters of the ruling Democratic Party on Tuesday (11/2) while a funeral march turned into an anti-government protest.
Flames leapt from the two buildings that...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: FORMER PRESIDENT SALI BERISHA RALLY
Albanian/Nat
Former Albanian President Sali Berisha has told a rally of about three-thousand of his supporters that street protests will continue until the government resigns.
Berisha's speech in Tirana on Saturday came despite calls...
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KOSOVO: KLA TO ISSUE PLEDGE AGAINST ATTACKING SERBS
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The Kosovo Liberation Army (K-L-A) has indicated it is ready to issue a public pledge that it will not attack Serb troops as they depart the troubled province.
Ethnic Albanian leader, Hashim Thaci has said the declaration...
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ALBANIA: GOVERNMENT POSTPONE VOTE ON EMERGENCY MEASURES
Albanian/Nat
The Albanian government has postponed a vote on emergency measures for the southern city of Vlora - after protests from Parliamentary deputies.
The new law would have allowed the use of the army to end street protests - but...
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KOSOVO: DOBRATIN: 2 MORE CHARRED BODIES DISCOVERED (2)
English/Nat
The charred remains of two more men have been found in a village near the Kosovan capital Pristina, bringing the number of dead in the incident to eight.
The discovery of the bodies follows last week's sustained offensive in...
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KOSOVO: PLANEIA: UNHCR ASSESS BOMBING CAMPAIGN DAMAGE
Eng/Albanian/Nat
More ethnic Albanians returning to Kosovo are finding their homes and villages in ruin.
On Tuesday, the UNHCR visited the village of Planeia, close to the Albanian border, to assess the damage there.
The village was...
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ALBANIA: JAILED FATOS NANO ALLOWED TO ATTEND MOTHERS FUNERAL
Albanian/Nat
Huge crowds flocked to see Albania's most prominent political dissident - leftist Fatos Nano - when he was briefly allowed out of prison to attend his mother's funeral.
The authorities used construction machinery to divert a...
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KOSOVO: ETHNIC ALBANIANS VOTE IN UNOFFICIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE
English/Nat
Pushing on with their quest for independence from Serbia, Kosovo's Albanians defiantly
voted for their own parliament and president in elections on Sunday.
Serbian officials, who refuse to recognize the ballot, have meanwhile...
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USA: PENTAGON KOSOVO CRISIS PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat
The U-S is again beefing-up its presence in the Balkans.
U-S Defence Secretary William Cohen has ordered 30 more refuelling aircraft to be sent to the region to assist in the air operations against Yugoslavia.
Meanwhile the...
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YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO: AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TRIES TO END CRISIS
English/Nat
International concern about the crisis in Yugoslavia is mounting, amid reports of more clashes in Kosovo.
Ten thousand ethnic Albanians fled in this week's fighting where they had apparently been targeted by the Serb heavy...
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UK: LONDON: WORLD'S FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS NUCLEAR CRISIS (2)
Russian/Eng/German/Nat
The world's leading industrial nations decided on Friday to deny loans to India and Pakistan in retaliation for their nuclear tests.
Loans for humanitarian purposes would be excluded from the U-S initiated boycott,...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST (2)
Albanian/Nat
Thousands of refugees have been crossing into Macedonia and Albania in what observers believe may be a final push by Yugoslav forces to rid Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian population.
The Organisation for Security and...
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ITALY: AUTHORITIES STEP UP CAMPAIGN TO HALT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Italian/Nat
The Italian authorities are stepping up their campaign to prevent illegal immigrants entering the country from Albania.
The army has already assigned up to a thousand soldiers to patrol the country's southern beaches. The...
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RUSSIA: TALKS WITH ALBANIA ON FUTURE OF BALKANS
Russian/Nat
The Russian and Albanian foreign ministers have held talks on the future stability of the Balkans.
Igor Ivanov and his Albanian counterpart Paskal Milo met in Moscow on Thursday and Ivanov said Russia was prepared to...
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Kosovo - Albanians prepare for local elections
Members of the ethnic Albanians' League for Democracy for Kosovo (LDK) were on Thursday (19/3) preparing for Sunday's (22/03) elections to choose a local Albanian "president" in Kosovo against a background of uncertainty over the...
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Albania - Exiled King Leka returns to his homeland
Albania's exiled king Leka, who at the age of just two days was
whisked out of the country as Italian fascists invaded in 1939,
returned to his homeland on Saturday (12/4).
He was surrounded by more than 1,000 supporters on his...
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ITALY: NATO AIR EXERCISES OVER THE BALKANS GETS UNDERWAY (2)
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NATO's Operation "Determined Falcon" is underway.
NATO warplanes took off from Aviano Air Base in Italy, as well as from Greece, France, Germany, Britain and the Adriatic Sea, to head for the Balkans in a massive show of...
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Macedonians vote in referendum on ethnic Albanian self-rule
1. Various shots of Skopje Macedonian quarter
2. Wide of government building
3. Close-up of Macedonian flag
4. Various interiors of electoral officials preparing a polling station in the Macedonian quarter of Skopje
5. Various of...
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Kosovo - Update on situation
Fierce overnight fighting in the Kosovo town of Morina, close to the Albanian border, spilled over into Thursday (18/06) morning as the Kosovo crisis continued to escalate. Shelling could still be seen from the Albanian border as a...