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Francis arrives, welcomed at airport by PM, exchange of official gifts
Pope Francis arrived in Albania on Sunday on a trip designed to highlight the Balkan nation's path from a brutal communist state where religion was banned to a model of Christian-Muslim coexistence for a world witnessing conflict in...
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Albania - Thousands take to streets in protest
Twenty thousand people made penniless by the collapse of another Albanian get-rich-quick company took to the streets of the town of Vlore on Thursday (6/2), laying siege to a police station.
Night views of marchers along the streets...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: SPANISH PRIME MINISTER AZNAR VISITS REFUGEE CAMP
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Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, said on Sunday that the settlement of the Kosovo crisis must not involve a partition of the province.
Aznar is in Albania to support Spanish efforts in dealing with the refugee...
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ALBANIA: DURRES: TURKISH TROOPS ARRIVE
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The first contingent of Turkish troops arrived Wednesday in the Albanian port of Durres.
The Turkish soldiers will boost the multi-national force already deployed in Albania as part of Operation Alba.
The deployment of...
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ALBANIA: FUNERAL OF ALBANIAN ADEM SELMANI KILLED BY SNIPER
Albanian/Nat
An Albanian man who was killed by a Serb sniper in a cross-border shooting was buried on Thursday.
Hundreds of people paid their respects to Adem Selmani, a 33-year-old father of two.
The Albanian Foreign Ministry has...
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Edi Rama says incumbent PM hindering national progress
1. Mid of exterior of Albanian Socialist Party headquarters
2. Mid of Italian Ambassador in Albania, Saba D'Elia, walking out after meeting Albanian Socialist Party leader Edi Rama
3. Mid of US Ambassador in Albania, John L. Withers,...
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Spokeswoman for Serbia's war crimes court on latest development
1. Wide exterior of Serbian special war crimes court
2. Media cutaway
3. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ivana Ramic, spokeswoman for Serbian special war crimes court:
"The appeal still hasn't arrived at the court and as we said before the deadline...
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ALBANIA: KING LEKA I RETURNS FROM EXILE IN SOUTH AFRICA
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A euphoric welcome for Albania's self-proclaimed King Leka I when he arrived in Albania's capital Tirana Saturday from exile in South Africa.
King Leka says he's returned to the strife-torn country to be a "unifying...
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Albania - Dini comments on crisis
Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini said on Sunday (9/3) that he saw no reason for other countries to intervene in the crisis in Albania. Dini was speaking after a two-hour meeting in Tirana with Albanian President Sali Berisha.
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UK: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE KOSOVO CRISIS PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat
The British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, has said Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is running out of time and said the best way of shifting the balance of power in Kosovo is to maintain the air-strikes.
And in the same...
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USA/EUROPE: VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO STRONGLY CRITICISED
Eng/French/Nat
The United States has condemned the latest Serb offensives against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and is taking steps to punish Yugoslavia for the events taking place in the province.
On Thursday, Washington announced it is...
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ALBANIA: TROOPS STAGE TANK MANOEUVRES NEAR SERBIAN BORDER
Albanian/Nat
Albania says its been warned by Russia that its deployment of troops on the border with Yugoslavia could worsen tensions in the region following the Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Albanian soldiers at the...
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Various - US envoys discuss Kosovo
US envoys Richard Holbrooke and Robert Gelbard arrived in Belgrade on Monday (11/5) for another attempt to persuade Yugloslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept foreign mediation in the troubled Serbian province of Kosovo. The two...
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MACEDONIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER RUGOVA VISIT
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Kosovo's pacifist ethnic Albanian leader said on Wednesday that an international military presence was essential in his home province of Kosovo before the refugees could begin returning.
Rugova spoke in Macedonia during a...
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Albania - Socialist opposition press conference
The Forum for Democracy, an umbrella group of opposition parties in Albania, denounced the Berisha regime on Saturday (8/2) after Albanian police resorted to force to break up several anti-government protest rallies, clubbing...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: 19 YR OLD REFUGEE WINS MISS ALBANIA CONTEST
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A 19-year-old refugee from Kosovo has been crowned Miss Albania 1999.
Venera Mustafa, who won the title on Saturday night, said her greatest desire was to return to her homeland as soon as possible.
Venera Mustafa has had...
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Serbia - Gelbard comments on Kosovo situation
US special envoy Robert Gelbard on Tuesday (10/03) pushed for an urgent solution of the Kosovo crisis as ethnic Albanians in the province refused to bury their dead until autopsies are performed on the bodies.
Ethnic Albanian officials...
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Intv with Turkish ambassador to Italy
1. Wide exterior of Turkish Embassy
2. Close-up of sign
3. Turkish ambassador to Italy Ugur Ziyal walking to his desk
4. Portrait of Republic of Turkey's first president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ugur Ziyal, Turkish...
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ALBANIA: GROWING PROBLEM WITH ILLEGAL DRUG TRAFFICKING
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With parts of Albania still largely at the mercy of armed gangs, a growing problem of illegal drugs trafficking has emerged to plague the authorities.
Rival gangs wage a bitter struggle for control of the lucrative new...
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Albania - Berisha to resign
Albania's President Sali Berisha said he would resign if and when an opposition-led government is appointed after final official results of last weekend's elections are confirmed.
It was the first time that Berisha has declared that he...
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ALBANIA: CIVILIANS FLEE AS FIGHTING NEARS THE BORDER
Albanian/Nat
Albanian villagers living near the border with Kosovo are fleeing their homes as the fighting in the troubled Serbian province spreads.
Reports from Albania say fighting is intensifying in Kosovo and Serbian forces are now...
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Families, neighbours react to arrests in US
1. Various of Debar
2. Various of Elez Duka, cousin of three brothers arrested over Fort Dix plot, sitting outside house with the Duka brothers' grandmother Naze Duka
3. Close up of hands
4. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Elez Duka, cousin of...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: PRIME MINISTER FATOS NANO RESIGNS (2)
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Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano has resigned, two weeks after rioting broke out in the capital, Tirana.
Immediately after word of Nano's resignation spread in Tirana, gunfire was heard in the city as well as a loud...
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Albania - Election campaign
Leader of Albania's opposition Socialist Party, Fatos Nano, told a rally of 5,000 supporters in the capital Tirana on Friday (27/6) he was expecting a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday (29/6).
Socialist...