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ALBANIA: PORT OF DURRES IS THROWN INTO CHAOS
Durres, Albania, 16 March 1997
1. Police on quayside
2. Wide shot of crowds chanting
3. Scuffles break out with police pushing and chasing people with batons and firing into the air
4. Mid shot of injured man on floor
5. Wide shot...
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ALBANIA: ELBASAN: 1ST RED CROSS CONVOY ARRIVES WITH HUMANITARIAN AID
English/Nat
The first Red Cross convoy arrived in the southern Albanian town of Elbasan on Saturday from northern Greece.
The exercise was a test-run to see how safe passage will be for the delivery of humanitarian aid into...
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Albania - new demonstration
Some 2,000 supporters of Albania's opposition leader, Sali Berisha, began a new demonstration on Sunday (20/9), marching towards the grave of the deputy whose murder one week ago unleashed a new wave. Berisha had called on supporters of...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: SELF-PROCLAIMED KING LEKA I ARRIVES
Albanian/Nat
A euphoric welcome for Albania's self-proclaimed King Leka I when he arrived in Albania Saturday from exile in South Africa.
King Leka was surrounded by thousands of supporters on his arrival in the capital ...
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Newspapers and voxpops as Kosovo PM claims victory in general election
1. Wide of street with billboard showing picture of incumbent Prime Minister Hashim Thaci
2. Close of billboard with picture of Thaci
3. People walking in street
4. Tilt down of newspapers in stand with headlines showing Thaci claiming...
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Albania - Results of election
An apparent victory in Albania's elections by the opposition
centre-left coalition has been welcomed on the streets of Vlore and in the capital, Tirana.
In Vlore - a southern port that was the centre of a general uprising in March, and...
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WRAP Arrivals for Kosovo talks, Kosovo PM, voxpops, Alb comment ADDS Surroi
Vienna, Austria
1. Various of convoy of cars arriving for talks
2. Albanian delegates getting out of car
Vienna, Austria
3. Veton Surroi, Albanian political leader and part of negotiating team, being asked questions by the press outside...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON KOSOVO CRISIS STATEMENT
English/Nat
U-S President Bill Clinton called on the Yugoslav leader President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his troops from the Serbian province of Kosovo.
He also repeated NATO's demands that all the refugees be allowed to return to...
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ALBANIA: REFUGEES UPDATE
English/Nat
As NATO air strikes continue on Yugoslavia, refugees persist in pouring into Albania from Kosovo.
Most of those arriving are women and children, echoing reports that men have been separated from their families.
An observer...
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Albania - General Elections
Albania's parliamentary elections were plunged into chaos on
Sunday (26/5) when the opposition socialist party withdrew before
polls closed, accusing the ruling conservatives of intimidation.
00.00 MS ballot box and officials.
00.06 CU...
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ALBANIA: TV SOUNDMAN SHOT BY SNIPER
Natural Sound
A television soundman has been shot in the head as he recorded clashes on the Kosovo Albanian border.
The soundman, from Chile, was rushed from the Morini border crossing to a first aid station in Kukes. His identity...
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USA: RICHARD HOLBROOKE RETURNS FOR TALKS ON THE BALKANS
President Clinton is ordering his top negotiator back to the Balkans today as America and its allies press for peace talks to end the war in Bosnia.
U-S envoy Richard Holbrooke is rushing back for a new round of shuttle diplomacy - as ...
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Albania - Storming of government house
The murder of opposition deputy Azem Hajdari sparked an armed clash between protestors and police in Tirana on Sunday (13/09) which reportedly left one person dead and at least four injured. The casualties occurred when some 1,500...
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Albania - Spanish troops arrive
The first group of the Spanish contingent of the multinational force for Albania left Durres harbour late this afternoon and drove to their temporary base near Durres.
WS harbour;
VS soldiers on quayside;
MS convoy of Spanish APC's...
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Albania - ICRC comment on crisis
The International Committee for the Red Cross has questioned the necessity of an international intervention force in Albania. But
according to Nina Winquist of the ICRC, the organisation would continue to distribute aid in the troubled...
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Albania - Protest / ICRC aid distribution
About 3,000 people gathered in central Vlore on Tuesday (01/04)
in their continued protest at the proposed deployment of foreign
troops in Albania.
Chairman of the Salvation Committee of Vlore, Albert Shyti,
addressed the crowd.
At the...
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Albania - NATO ships show support for peace
Four ships (the Italian ITS Espero, the Spanish SPS Canarias, Greek HS Macedonia and Turkish TCG) from NATO's Mediterranean Standing Naval Force visited the Albanian port of Durres for the first time on Wednesday (8/7) in another show of...
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Albania - International observers
Five hundred international observers, in Albania to supervise Sunday's (29/6) elections, left the capital, Tirana, on Friday (27/6) to travel to different regions. The observers, from the Organisation for Cooperation and Security in...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST (2)
Natural Sound
The latest exodus of refugees flooding into Albania are finding that there is nowhere to go.
Camps in the north of the country are full, and the Red Cross is finding it impossible to deal with the huge numbers now...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
Albanian/Nat
An operation to transfer Kosovo refugees from crowded camps in Macedonia to Albania is finally underway.
The Macedonian government has increasingly pushed for more refugees to be moved abroad to relieve the pressure of...
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ALBANIA: GOVERNMENT SUSPEND MILITARY ATTACKS FOR 48 HOURS
Albanian/Nat
Defying a government call to disarm, militants in southern Albania rallied forces Friday and selected leaders for their fight against President Sali Berisha.
The government suspended military attacks in the south for 48...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: REFUGEES UPDATE
Albanian/Nat
The refugee camp at Kukes on the Albanian-Kosovo border is now home to another three-thousand Kosovar refugees from villages near Pristina.
They arrived in Albania overnight - almost all travelling in tractors and...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: NATO: SPANISH TROOPS ARRIVE
Spanish/Nat
The first Spanish troops have arrived in Albania to play their part in NATO's efforts to contain the refugee crisis.
On Sunday, a Spanish navy ship carrying 651 soldiers and 40 officers docked in the port of Durres.
Their...
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EU Ministers, NATO comment on Kosovo elections
1. Wide exterior of European Council building
2. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer getting out of car
3. Cutaway of camera
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary...