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GREECE: ALBANIAN FAMILIES FLEE FOLLOWING RECENT CIVIL UNREST
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Albanian families were fleeing the country into neighbouring Greece Wednesday following the recent civil unrest there.
Hundreds of Albanians thronged both sides of the crossing point, trying to leave Albania for Greece....
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
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NATO has begun relocating some 30-thousand Kosovo Albanian refugees from the northern frontier to safer camps deeper inside Albania.
Military officials charges with the move claim the refugees could be at risk of attack...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: OSCE DELEGATION ARRIVE FOR CRISIS TALKS
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The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has increased diplomatic efforts to restore stability in Albania, after a week of opposition protests.
An O-S-C-E delegation led by Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw...
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Albania - State of unrest continues
Southern Albanian rebels fired anti-aircraft tracers into the night sky on Thursday (6/3) in an apparent rebuff to President Sali Berisha's offer of an amnesty.
On Friday (7/6) a rally was held in the rebel-held southern Albanian town of...
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Albania - NATO troops continue training operations
As the American embassy in the capital, Tirana, was increasing security around its residences, troops from all 14 of the NATO member nations continued their maneuvres during their 4th day of exercises on Thursday (20/08) in the Bize...
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ALBANIA: SAVING SCHEMES PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE
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Tens of thousands of protesters unsatisfied with promises to return the money they lost in get-rich-quick schemes have clashed with police in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
The protest Sunday came a day after mobs smashed...
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ALBANIA: FRANZ VRANITZKY OF THE OSCE ARRIVES FOR ELECTIONS
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International leaders regard this weekend's elections in Albania as the only way out of the violence that has swept Europe's poorest country.
Albania slipped into lawnesses early this year after protests over failed...
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ALBANIA: ITALIAN HELICOPTERS EVACUATE WESTERNERS
Tirana, Albania. March 14th 1997
1. Italian Helicopter coming in to land
2. People walking into stadium
3. People with bags and papers walking into stadium
4. People walking across grounds
5. Helicopter lands
6. Italian soldier...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: CAMP CLOWNS
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There are few more depressing sights than that of thousands of refugees stuck in camps and shanty towns remembering those they left behind.
But one group of performers is determined to bring a little sunshine into the lives...
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USA: ALBANIAN PRIME MINISTER PROMISES CO-OPERATION - KOSOVO UPDATE
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The Albanian Prime Minister has promised his government's collaboration if NATO decides to act in Kosovo.
Meanwhile, U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is testing Congressional approval for sending thousands of U-S...
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GREECE/ALBANIA: ALBANIANS CROSS BORDER FEARING OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR
Kakavia, Greece and over the border from Kakavia in Southern Albania -- 7 March 1997
Kakavia, Greece
1. Line of Albanians at border
2. Cutaway bags
3. Queue of people
4. Small child waving
5. Mother and child
6. Cutaway passport...
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Albania - Berisha announce elections
Albanian President Sali Berisha on Wednesday (14/05) announced that he would sign a decree to dissolve parliament and call elections for 29 June, despite the boycott threats by the opposition parties.
Berisha made the announcement in...
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Albania - Election results
A decisive election victory for Albania's opposition Socialist
Party and its main ally, the Social Democrats, has raised hopes
that order will now be restored across the country after months
of anarchy.
Ext. Congress Hall where electoral...
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US: Protic: Milan St. Protic, Ambassador of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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Speaking in Washington, D-C on Friday, the Yugoslav Ambassador expressed his concern about worsening violence in the Balkans.
Milan Protic was particularly troubled by the recent actions of alleged Kosovo Albanian...
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Thaci says building a country ready to join NATO
1. Pan across street scene, with yellow letters reading (English): "Newborn"
2. Pan right mid shot across yellow sign reading (English): "Newborn"
3. Exterior of Kosovo government building
4. Various of Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim...
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Albania - Many flee homes as fighting continues
At least three ethnic Albanian refugees have died from exhaustion and starvation after walking 15 hours to escape Serbian security force attacks in Serbia's Kosovo province, Albanian officials said on Friday (05/06).
VS ethnic Albanian...
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ALBANIA: ELBASAN: PRESIDENT SALI BERISHA SPEAKS AT ELECTION RALLY
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Albanian President Sali Berisha says elections to be held in the country on June 29th will be free and fair.
Berisha was speaking at an election rally in Elbasan, 35 kilometres (20 miles) southeast of Tirana, on...
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Albania - Rebels continue to hold south
Rebels in Albania captured four more towns in the south of the country,
including Berat, over the weekend (8-9/3). It's thought they've also taken control of a major airbase outside the town of Kucova where three Mig fighters were...
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President pledges independence from Serbia in 2008
1. Exterior of Kosovo government building
2. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo:
"Dear citizens, in this last day of this year, we are closing a chapter and opening a new one. Looking back, we see what we have...
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Kosovo Albanians react to Serbia winning song contest
AP Television
Pristina May 13 2007
1. Wide shot of Pristina streets
2. Mid shot of people walking along streets
3. People in restaurant watching Eurovision song contest
4. Close up of screen showing the Germany reporting their...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: VOLUNTEERS RECRUITED FOR KLA
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Hundreds of volunteers from across Europe gathered near the Albanian port of Durres on Saturday determined to fight alongside Kosovo Liberation Army troops.
The K-L-A has been fighting Serb forces for more than a...
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KOSOVO/USA: VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO
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President Clinton told Kosovo's leaders on Friday that the U-S was consulting with its European partners to ensure an appropriate to escalating Serb attacks in the province.
Nearly 200 people - mostly civilian - have...
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Albania/Kosovo - Refugees/Demonstrations
Authorities in northeast Albania, overwhelmed by the flood of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees from neighbouring Kosovo, are desperately seeking international aid. In a plea for international intervention, round 25,000 ethnic...
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Albania - Assassination attempt on Berisha
Hopes are fading that Albania's elections willl be able to go ahead later this month in the wake of an assassination attempt on President Sali Berisha on Wednesday (04/06).
The would-be assassin, 25-year-old Ilir Ceta, 25, attempted to...