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ALBANIA: VLORA: ANTI GOVERNMENT PROTESTS CONTINUE
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Thousands of people have demonstrated once again in the southern Albanian city of Vlora on Friday.
Demonstrators are protesting against a government they blame for the failure of high- risk investment schemes that...
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UK - Islamic Jihad fudamentalists implicated
A London-based Arabic-language newspaper, Al-Hayat, reported a day before Friday's (7/8) deadly bomb blasts outside the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that the Islamic Jihad vowed last week to strike at American interests over...
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ALBANIA: KLA ENLIST SURVIVORS TO RETURN TO KOSOVO
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Young male Kosovo-Albanian refugees arriving in Albania are being sent back into the Serbian province to fight for the Kosovo Liberation Army (K-L-A).
An estimated 3-thousand refugees an hour are passing through the...
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ITALY: BRINDISI: FRENCH RECONNAISSANCE TROOPS LEAVE FOR ALBANIA
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The French ship Champlain left the Italian port of Brindisi Saturday, bound for Durres in Albania with 120 reconnaissance troops on board.
The soldiers are being sent to make preparations for a multinational force...
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ALBANIA: APACHE HELICOPTERS TAKING OFF FROM TIRANA
Tirana, April 23 1999
1. Various of Apache helicopters in the air
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Apaches helicopters have taken off from their base at Tirana airport.
Friday's manoeuvres were the made by the "tank-busting" choppers.
However, it's...
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Italy - French troops leave Italy for Albania
A first contingent of 150 French soldiers set sail from the
southern Italian port of Brinidisi for Albania on Saturday
afternoon (12/4) aboard the French Navy amphibious vessel
'Champlain', as part of the French contribution to...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: EU MISSION ARRIVES TO ASSESS THE LATEST SITUATION
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A European Union mission arrived Monday in Albania to assess the needs in the Balkan country where authorities are struggling to regain control.
The eleven-member delegation was composed of diplomats and military officers...
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Clashes break out at rally, police use tear gas, water cannon
1. Wide pan of lines of police officers outside Prime Minister's office
2. Mid of police
3. Various of protesters marching down avenue
4. Mid of protesters marching towards Prime Minister's offices with banners
5. Protesters scuffling...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: STATE OF EMERGENCY KEEPING PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS
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The state of emergency in Albania is keeping people off the streets of the capital, Tirana.
Curfews, roadblocks and shoot to kill powers given to the police were introduced in a bid to end weeks of violent protest by...
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ALBANIA: ANTI GOVERNMENT PROTESTS CONTINUE UPDATE
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Albanian police manhandled and beat demonstrators Saturday to prevent opposition parties from holding a rally against President Sali Berisha and the collapse of pyramid investment schemes.
Club-swinging police assaulted...
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Rebuilding of strife-ridden city
Autumn 2002
1. Various of bulldozer tearing bring building on the Lana River
2. Various of men on roof helping with demolition
3. Various of pavement being ripped up by bulldozer
4. Tracking shot of demolished area
5. Wideshot of...
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ALBANIA: NATO WARPLANES FLY OVER TIRANA
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NATO war planes flew over Albania on Monday in a show of military strength and a warning to Serbia to back off in the current conflict in Kosovo.
Albanians have been pressing for a NATO presence in their air space for some...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: ITALIAN AIR FORCE PLANE ARRIVES WITH MEDICAL AID
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A Hercules plane has landed in the Albanian capital Tirana with six tonnes of medial aid sent by Italy.
And in a sign that the capital is returning to normality, Monday, the first Western scheduled plane - an Austrian...
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ALBANIA: US TROOPS AWAIT ARRIVAL OF APACHE HELICOPTERS
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There was intense activity at the American air base at Tirana airport on Sunday, as troops awaited the imminent arrival of two battalions of Apache helicopters.
The full contingent of 24 attack helicopters was expected to...
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ITALY: NATO APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTERS AT BRINDISI
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Those tank-killing Apache helicopters are finally on their way to Albania.
The U-S gunships touched down at Brindisi in Italy to refuel, before heading off for their new base in Albania.
There, they'll be used in the NATO...
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ALBANIA: DURRES: GREEK & ITALIAN SHIPS CARRYING SOLDIERS DOCK
Durres, Albania, 18 April 1997
1. Wide shot harbour, soldier in foreground on guard
2. Helicopter flying over harbour, troops on guard
3. Wide shot troops on quayside
4. Wide shot Greek ship Samos
5. Samos docking
6. Bow of boat...
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ALBANIA: VLORE: ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS CONTINUE
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For the third day in a row the Albanian port city of Vlora was clogged with throngs of protestors who are vowing to keep up the rallies to overthrow the government.
And for the first time they were joined by opposition...
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Kosovo/Albania - Refugees/NATO exercises
About 1,700 soldiers from NATO countries and their eastern European partners began ground, sea and air manoeuvres in Albania on Monday (17/8), codenamed "Cooperative Assembly 98", as the situation in the Serbian province of Kosovo...
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Albanian president meets football team in wake of drone controversy
Albanian President Bujar Nishani met with representatives and players of the Albanian national football team at the Presidential Palace on Wednesday following the interruption of the team's Euro 2016 qualifying match against Serbia last...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: APACHE HELICOPTERS ARRIVE
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U-S Apache helicopters in Albania are being prepared for involvement in the air attacks on the Serb military acting in Kosovo if they are needed.
They flew their first test manoeuvres on Friday afternoon out of the NATO...
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+4:3 Francis cheered on as he speeds through capital, arrives for mass
Pope Francis greeted crowds of faithful in Tirana on Sunday in an open-topped popemobile, despite security concerns amid reported threats from Islamic militants.
The motorcade stopped on its way to a mass venue and Francis kissed...
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ALBANIA: REFUGEES CONTINUE ACROSS BORDER
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Thousands of Kosovar refugees continued crossing the Albanian border on Wednesday.
Albanians authorities have now slowed the flow of ethnic Albanian refugees, registering and checking the names of each member of the family as...
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ALBANIA: ALBANIAN ARMY STEP UP SECURITY AT CHECKPOINTS
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The Albanian army has been stepping up security at checkpoints leading from the rebel- held south to the capital.
Soldiers and armoured vehicles are out in force, guarding the main road leading out of Tirana.
And rebels...
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: LEAD UP TO PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
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Albanian President Sali Berisha on Friday made a final appeal for voters to return his ruling Democratic Party to power in Sunday's early parliamentary elections.
Addressing a rally of thousands in Tirana's main square,...