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Central and southeastern leaders hold talks on Kosovo
1. Wide of Ohrid with lake
2. Wide of flags with cars driving in foreground
3. Mid of flags
4. Wide of Ohrid lake with police patrol boats
5. Two police patrol boats on lake
6. Mid of boat with Macedonian flag
7. Various of security
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ALBANIA: SMUGGLING GOODS TO MONTENEGRO
Albanian/Nat
Communities in the north of Albania are struggling to survive in the face of the United Nations trade embargo on Serbia, formerly an important trading partner of this impoverished country.
Many men have been drawn into the...
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Kosovo - Burial of Albanians/Troops enter region
Three Kosovo Albanians killed last week by the Yugoslav army while trying to cross into Albania were buried in the town of Priljep on Wednesday (29/4). The funeral was attended by masked gunmen apparently belonging to militant Albanian...
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Albania - Thousands join anti government protests
Tens of thousands of people packed into the town square in the southern Albanian port city of Vlore on Thursday (27/02) to demonstrate their opposition to the government.
A huge motorcade with protesters brandishing shotguns and axes...
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ALBANIA: EU WILL NOT SEND AID UNTIL ALBANIAN SECURITY IS UNDER CONTROL
English/Nat
The European Union won't be sending any aid to Albania until the security of the country is under control.
An 11 member E-U delegation returned to Rome Wednesday after meeting Albanian officials in Tirana.
The European...
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Belgium - Albania calls for NATO troops
NATO members were expected to turn down an Albanian request Wednesday (11/3) to send troops to the border with Serbia's Kosovo province.
The council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would express its solidarity with...
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ALBANIA: WIDOW OF FORMER COMMUNIST DICTATOR RELEASED FROM PRISON
Natural Sound
Nexhmije Hoxha the widow of Albania's former Communist dictator, Enver Hoxha, has enjoyed her first taste of freedom in over five years.
Hoxha, 76 years old, was released on Friday from a women's prison in the Albanian ...
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Albania - Militants move further north
Armed Albanian militants on Saturday (8/3) appeared to be moving further north, despite a 48-hour ceasefire called by President Sali Berisha to allow rebels to surrender their seized weapons without threat of retribution.
Witnesses said...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: REFUGEE CRISIS LATEST
Albanian/Nat
Thousands of Ethnic Albanians fled the Kosovan town of Damia on Tuesday and told APTN of the incredible atrocities occurring in their town.
One couple, who lost their child, spoke of how they escaped from flying...
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USA: US DENY CIVILIANS KILLED IN NATO BOSNIA BOMBING CAMPAIGN
English/Nat
U-S officials Wednesday strongly denied Bosnian Serb charges that civilians had been killed in the NATO bombing campaign.
The State Department in Washington said there is no evidence from sources in Bosnia of civilian...
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ALBANIA: VLORA: 3 PEOPLE WOUNDED IN RIVAL GANGS SHOOT OUT
Natural Sound
Three people were wounded during a shoot-out between rival Albanian gangs on the streets of Vlora on Wednesday.
The attack was the latest sign of escalating violence in the southern port, the cradle of the anti-Berisha...
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Albania - Albanian refugees leave Kosovo
At least three ethnic Albanian refugees died from exhaustion and starvation on Friday (05/06) after walking 15 hours to escape Serbian security force attacks in Serbia's Kosovo province. Some 3,500 people from western Kosovo have...
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KOSOVO: ETHNIC ALBANIAN LEADER RUGOVA PRESS CONFERENCE
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Ibrahim Rugova, the ethnic Albanian leader in Kosovo, has admitted indirectly that his party has little control over militants fighting for independence from Serbia.
In Pristina on Friday, Rugova said control over the...
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Albania - Mass turnout for funeral
Hundreds of Albanians attended the funeral on Thursday (18/6) in Tropoje of a man shot on Tuesday night. The man is believed to have been killed by a Serb sniper who is said to have been some 40 metres inside Albanian territory. Tropoje,...
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ALBANIA: VLORA: PROTESTORS CLASH WITH RIOT POLICE UPDATE (2)
Vlora and Tirana, Albania -- 10 February 1997
1. Wide shot square with demonstrators
2. Chanting demonstrators
3. Protestors around bonfires
4. Wide shot street with bonfire smoke rising
5. UPSOUND: explosions and crowd jeering
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Macedonia: Solana: UN Security Chief Solana press conference
English/Nat
The European Union's security affairs chief, Javier Solana, said on Tuesday that the Macedonian government was justified in refusing to negotiate with the insurgents.
Speaking at a press conference in Skopje after meeting...
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MACEDONIA/KOSOVO BORDER: REFUGEE CRISIS (2)
Natural Sound
The Kosovo refugee crisis continued to worsen on Tuesday, as some 4-thousand exhausted ethnic Albanian refugees finally arrived in Macedonia after spending three days hiding from Serb forces in the mountains of Kosovo.
An...
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APTN clean cover of bus hostage crisis in Athens
1. Wide shot road, police car, police cordon, troops behind cordon
2. Mid shot black 4x4 vehicles pull around police car barricade and pull in behind bus (sniper teams inside)
3. Sniper teams in balaclavas by van
4. Wide shot bus, police...
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YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO: FAMILY RETURN HOME
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Refugees have begun leaving refugee camps and returning to their homes in Kosovo, despite pleas from NATO to remain in the camps until the province is cleared of mines and booby traps.
Many have found their homes and...
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Albania - Serbs are taken over border to Albania
Two Montenegrins who claimed they were Yugoslav Army (JNA) deserters said in Albania on Sunday (21/6) that they had been ordered to kill civilians in Kosovo while serving in the predominantly-Serb federal army. OSCE representatives took...
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Alleged massacre witness and rape victim to testify.
Izbica village
1. Wide shot of countryside
2. Hetemi walking through graveyard
3. Hetemi tending grave
4. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Milazim Hetemi, massacre witness:
"Dead bodies were lying everywhere here. There were people without eyes,...
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YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO: PRISTINA: NATO PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
Around 20-thousand Yugoslav troops - half the total Yugoslav force in Kosovo - had left the province or were in the process of leaving on Tuesday.
KFOR spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Robin Clifford told a news briefing that 115...
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Albania - Italy pledges aid
Italian Foreign Minister Lameberto Dini pledged 317.2 billion lire (nearly 180 million dollars) in aid funding for Albania on Thursday (18/12) during talks in Tirana. He announced the package at a press conference held together with his...
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Kosovo leaders regret delays on final UN report about their future
1. Exterior of Kosovo government building
2. Various EU and UN flags
3. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo:
"We express our deep regret at today's notification from the office of the U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari of...