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ALBANIA: TIRANA: CIVIL STRIFE FINALLY REACHES CAPITAL
Natural Sound
A showdown between anti-government insurgents and supporters of Albania's embattled president, Sali Berisha, appeared inevitable late Wednesday as gangs apparently loyal to the president stole arms from the main military...
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ALBANIA: FUNERAL OF FERIABE SPASOLLI
Albanian/Nat
The plight of refugees fleeing Kosovo does not end once they cross the border and escape the reach of Serbian soldiers - a painful lesson one family learned on Monday.
After moving in with a host family in the Albanian town...
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Albania - Aid arrives in Tirana
Medical aid from Poland began arriving in the Albanian capital
Tirana on Thursday (10/4) as multinational troops from several
European countries completed preparations for their mission.
The 6,000 troops, due next week, will secure major...
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ALBANIA: KLA DENIES COERCION CLAIMS
Eng/Albanian/Nat
The K-L-A denies it is coercing young men to return to the Serbian province to fight for the Kosovo Liberation Army (K-L-A).
APTN has pictures of K-L-A troops in Albania checking the refugee buses for those fit enough to...
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ALBANIA: BALASH: REBEL LEADERS GATHER TO DISCUSS THEIR NEXT MOVE
Albanian/Nat
Rebel leaders in the south of Albania held a meeting Tuesday, and agreed to give President Sali Berisha until Thursday to resign.
They said they'll meet again on Friday to decide what to do if the President doesn't stand...
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Albania - Solana visit
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana arrived in Tirana on Thursday (02/07) to discuss the continued unrest in Kosovo with the Albanian government.
VS round table,
Meeting between Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano and NATO Secretary...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: KOSOVO REFUGEES LATEST
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Thousands of refugees continue to stream through the Albanian border causing mounting difficulties for local relief authorities to accommodate them all.
About 100-thousand refugees have already poured into Albania alone,...
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Albania - Unrest continues
Albania's government on Wednesday (12/2) halted its efforts to impose a state of emergency in the southern port of Vlore and indicted it would try to use diplomacy to end anti-government rioting there.
The government sacked Vlore's...
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Kosovo/Italy - Update on Kosovo situation
Albanians demonstrated outside the Italian embassy in Rome during the meeting of the six-nation Contact Group on Wednesday (29/4). The meeting was held in order to try and decide on new sanctions against the former Yugoslavia over the...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: JOSPIN ARRIVES
French/Nat
U.N. refugee agencies say it appears Serb forces have launched a new expulsion campaign targeting doctors, nurses and other professionals, as thousands of refugees streamed out of Kosovo's second-largest city on Friday.
By...
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ALBANIA: ILIR HOXHA SENTENCED TO 1 YEAR OF HOUSE ARREST
Albanian/Nat
The son of one of Europe's most ruthless dictators has been sentenced to one year of house arrest.
Ilir Hoxha, 46, was sentenced in the Albanian capital, Tirana, after defending the name of his late father, the Albanian...
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ITALY: ALBANIAN REFUGEES TRY TO ENTER COUNTRY
Italian/Nat
Dozens of Albanians are trying to escape the chaos and violence in their country by crossing the Adriatic Sea in the dark and trying to slip unnoticed into Italy.
As a result, Italian authorities have stepped up patrols to...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: PRESIDENT BERISHA IS WILLING TO CALL EARLY ELECTIONS
English/Nat
President Sali Berisha has told international mediators, Saturday, that he is willing to call early elections if the rebels in the south lay down their weapons.
But former Austrian chancellor Franz Vranitzky, who is heading...
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Albania - Football cup final
The rivalry between the north and south of Albania on Saturday (3/5) moved from the political sphere to the soccer field where two teams played Albania's cup final under heavy police security.
Flamurtari of Vlora, the city at the heart...
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MACEDONIA/KOSOVO: BORDER REMAINS CLOSED
Albanian/Nat
The border between Macedonia and Kosovo remains closed on Monday - the refugee deluge choked off.
Officials in Macedonia slammed the door to refugees shut last Wednesday after nearly a quarter of a million people crossed...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: 20 THOUSAND REFUGEES CROSS BORDER IN 36HRS
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Almost 20-thousand refugees have poured across the border into northern Albania in the past 36 hours, stretching the resources on the ground to breaking point.
The refugees are arriving in poor condition - exhausted...
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Reax from Croatian, Albanian presidents plus Carl Bildt
1. Wide shot of congress centre
2. Close-up congress centre sign
3. Set up shot inside congress lobby
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carl Bildt, UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Balkans "Well I think it's good he has been indicted...
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(V) ALBANIA: REFUGEES LED ACROSS MINE FIELDS
English/Nat
Serb troops have led more than two-thousand Kosovars along a mined mountain route to the Albanian border - to a place so remote that trucks are unable to bring in food or ferry out the thousands of refugees who have started...
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ALBANIA: SARANDA: GREECE SENDS SECOND SHIPMENT OF AID
English/Nat
As conditions remain hard for those in Albania where crisis continues to grip the country, Greece has sent its second aid shipment in a week to its neighbour.
The Mayor of Athens escorted a Greek navy minesweeper as it...
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KOSOVO: LDK PARTY LEADER INSISTS ON INDEPENDENCE FROM SERBIA
Albanian/Eng
The main Kosovo Albanian political leader insists on independence from Serbia and says that limited autonomy was no answer.
Ibrahim Rugova also called for the region to be made an international protectorate until the crisis...
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KOSOVO: JUNIK: VILLAGERS JOIN KLA TO PROTECT THEIR HOMES
Junik, Kosovo, 22 June 1998
1. Wide shot men running for cover, loud audio of gunfire
2. Mid shot village, audio of gunfire
3. KLA fighter in street
4. Mid shot houses, audio of firefight in background
5. Soldiers sheltering inside
6....
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: HOMEMADE BOMB THROWN AT HOME OF POLITICIAN
English/Nat
A homemade bomb was thrown at the Tirana home of a politician connected with Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano overnight.
The attack happened just hours before a leading member of the self-styled ethnic Albanian government...
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Albania - Tension on the Kosovo border
As NATO AND G8 ministers discuss the worsening crisis in the Serbian province of Kosovo, thousands of refugees continue to flee the violence.
Many are flooding across the border from Kosovo into nothern Albania, where there are...
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PM Berisha casts ballot in election, comments on deadly shooting
1. Prime Minister Sali Berisha and his wife Liri Berisha entering room shaking hands with election workers
2. Berisha registering to vote
3. Berisha and his wife casting their vote
4. Berisha putting his ballot in ballot box and making...