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Albania - Refugees flee border to escape fighting
As fighting intensifies in the Serb province of Kosovo, refugees are again streaming across the border into Albania. The UN relief agency said about 350 people fled Thursday (13/8) - the first large scale movement across the border...
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KOSOVO: K-FOR ESCORTS REFUGEE CONVOY INTO PRISTINA
Albanian/Nat
Three U-N-H-C-R buses loaded with ethnic Albanian refugees have crossed the Albanian/Kosovo border.
The refugees are returning to Kosovo from Albania where they have been living in camps since fleeing their homeland months...
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ALBANIA: ALBANIANS PREPARE TO VOTE IN ELECTIONS
Natural Sound
With campaigning over, Albanians on Saturday prepared for a vote that is intended to restore order in the strife-torn country.
Sunday's elections are aimed at preventing any further slide into anarchy, which has torn the...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: OPPOSITION PARTIES VOW TO WORK TOGETHER
Albanian/Nat
Opposition parties in Albania have vowed to work together to oust the president and end a national crisis brought on by collapsing get-rich-quick schemes.
Arrests of their supporters in anti-government protests over...
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Albanian police show off truckload of guns siexed from rebels
1. Wide shot port of Durres and the ferry boat on which truck arrived
2. Wide shot truck on which weapons where transported
3. Mid shot weapons and pan up to police officer handling American made sniper rifle
4. Mid shot Albanian...
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ALBANIA: TEPELENA: REBEL LEADERS PLAN THEIR NEXT MOVES
Albanian/Nat
Rebel leaders in southern Albania met Friday to plan their next move after President Sali Berisha's refusal to resign.
Rebel leader Gjolek Malaj said they would be discussing ways to oust Berisha from power.
Albania's...
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KOSOVO: KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS PARADE
Albanian/Nat
Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Pristina on Sunday to cheer the military force that preceded the arrival of NATO in Kosovo one year ago.
The Kosovo Protection Corps, formerly known as the Kosovo Liberation...
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ALBANIA: AID ARRIVES FROM FRANCE
French/Nat
French planes are flying in emergency aid to Albania destined for the Kosovo refugees stranded on the border as the exodus from the stricken province continues.
A fleet of 15 planes is expected to fly 100 tonnes of clothing,...
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ALBANIA: BRITISH NATO COMMANDER REPORTS ON REFUGEE CRISIS
English/Nat
A NATO commander says refugees are being moved for their own safety away from the border with Kosovo deeper into Albanian territory.
British General John Reith, who heads NATO's humanitarian effort in Albania, says the...
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ALBANIA: GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER SCHARPING VISIT
German/Nat
German Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping toured refugee camps in Albania on Monday.
The visit was part of his tour of the Balkans where he's assessing the military and humanitarian situation.
The minister came with a message...
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Albania - Compensation for investors
Albania's President, Sali Berisha, said on Wednesday (29/1) that investors into the collapsed "pyramid" investment schemes would receive in compensation about seventy percent of their original deposit.
The president called a press...
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SERBIA/ALBANIA: PEACE PLAN FOR KOSOVO LATEST
English/Nat
U-S envoy Richard Holbrooke is heading back to Washington after failing to get Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic to accept a Western-backed peace plan for Kosovo.
Prior to leaving Belgrade, Holbrooke briefed Contact...
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YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO: PEC: SERB HOUSES DESTROYED
Albanian/Nat
Despite the presence of K-FOR, houses continue to be set alight in Kosovo as returning ethnic Albanians take revenge on the Serb population of the province.
The return of some of the refugees also continues to lead them to...
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BELGIUM: NATO MEMBERS GATHER TO DISCUSS KOSOVO CRISIS (2)
French/Russian/Nat
After a gruelling day of meetings, NATO General Secretary with both Russian and French Defence Ministers, announced they would attempt to persue peaceful solutions to the Yugoslav-Kosovo conflict before resulting to...
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Explosion in office building kills one, injures three
1. Wide of police examining hole in building left by explosion
2. Mid of police inspecting damage
3. Zoom out to wide of building
4. Various of police and rescue workers at the scene
5. Various of debris scattered on ground from the...
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KOSOVO/UK: KOSOVO CRISIS (V)
Voice and effects
Twenty four ethnic Albanian separatists were killed in the latest clashes in war torn Kosovo.
Serb police apparently stormed a village held by rebel troops near the Albanian border, in the southwest of the province....
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KOSOVO: NATO CHIEF SOLANA VISIT
Eng/Albanian/Nat
NATO's Secretary General Javier Solana has toured Kosovo to see for himself the steps being taken by K-FOR to implement peace in the province.
He received a rapturous welcome from crowds of well-wishers in Prizren and...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: TOP INTERNATIONAL ENVOY FRANZ VRANITZKY ARRIVES
German/Nat
The top international envoy for Albania arrived in Tirana Wednesday for two days of talks intended to further political dialogue in the chaos-torn country.
Franz Vranitzky told reporters he hoped the dialogue would be...
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Kosovo - Police vandalise Albanian homes
Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are alleging that Serb police on duty in the province have been ransacking the homes they requisitioned from frightened occupants. In Polac, near Srebica, the houses where the Serb police have stayed are...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVAR REFUGEE CHILDREN START SCHOOL (V)
Eng/Albanian/Nat
VOICED BY: Caroline Byrne
Kosovar refugee children started school classes in a camp in Kukes, Albania, on Monday, as aid agencies focus on what to do with the children in the long-term.
The school was set up by an...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
Albanian/Nat
The first Kosovo refugees to arrive in Albania for a week crossed the border at Morini near Kukes on Friday.
Two-thousand refugees struggled through the crossing, once again bringing with them stories of a Serbian...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO: CLINTON: ARRIVAL UPDATE
English/Nat
U-S President Bill Clinton on Tuesday met with the leaders of Albania and Macedonia to thank them for opening their borders to nearly 1 (m) million refugees from Kosovo.
Driving rain and strong winds greeted U-S President...
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Army depot explosion kills at least 5, injures 243; debris on highway
1. Skyline of village where roofs of houses are totally destroyed
2. Exterior of what is left of buildings of ammunition depot with smoke burning
3. Close-up of destroyed roof
4. Wide of Albanian soldiers sealing off area
5. Wide pan of...
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Albania - More protests
Thousands of Albanians who lost money in the collapse of get-rich-quick schemes demonstrated on Thursday (13/2) in the riot-scarred town of Vlore, hours after a policeman was shot dead in what authorities describe as a gangland...