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Project turns unknown Albanian village into tourist spot
LEADIN
An ambitious project is aiming to open up remote villages in the highlands of southern Albania to the outside world and to tourists wanting to discover the spectacular natural beauty and rural way of life of the more...
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Project turns unknown Albanian village into tourist spot
LEADIN
An ambitious project is aiming to open up remote villages in the highlands of southern Albania to the outside world and to tourists wanting to discover the spectacular natural beauty and rural way of life of the more...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Macron defends position to block N. Macedonia and Albania EU membership bids
French President Emmanuel Macron defends his position to block EU membership bids of North Macedonia and Albania labelled as a historic mistake by some officials that risks destabilising the Balkans (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Tusk Plenkovic stress support for EU enlargement in the Balkans
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic welcomes outgoing European Council president Donald Tusk to Zagreb ahead of the EPP congress in which he is set to be elected as the party's new leader (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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ALBANIA: TIRANA: FLIGHT CARRYING AID FOR REFUGEES ARRIVES (2)
English/Nat
The first relief flight carrying aid for thousands of refugees who've fled fighting in Kosovo arrived in neighbouring Albania on Saturday from Sarajevo.
NATO and the leading U-N aid agency in the Bosnian capital set up a...
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KOSOVO: ALBANIAN PM LLIR META VISIT
Albanian/Nat
On his first visit to Kosovo, Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta expressed his concern over the serious situation in the troubled Presevo valley, bordering Kosovo and Serbia.
The region has been the scene of clashes between...
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Albania - Albanian returnees
About 30 Albanians were returned to Tirana's newly reopened
airport on Saturday (22/3) aboard an Italian C-130 military
aircraft.
A delegation of political and rebel leaders from the southern
port town of Vlore, headed by rebel chief...
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ALBANIA: UN AMNESTY ON LOOTED WEAPONS
English/Nat
The United Nations has begun an amnesty on Albanian weapons looted during the country's 1997 uprising.
In return for guns and ammunition the U-N has pledged to restore the Albania's shattered infrastructure.
Thousands of...
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Albania - Update on situation
Albanian police were called in to disperse a crowd trying to enter the American embassy in Tirana on Tuesday (1/4). More than fifty Albanians were chased them away and police reinforced security around the compound. It was unclear why...
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Albania - Deployment of international force
The deployment of a multinational military force in Albania began at dawn on Tuesday (15/04) with the arrival in Durres harbour of the French naval ship l'Orage.
00:00 WS troop carrier approaching dock;
00:03 MS troop ship backing...
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Italy/Albania-Multinational force to go to Albania
The bulk of the Italian contingent leading a 6,000-strong
multinational force to Albania will start to leave Italy for
Albania on Tuesday (15/4), Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi
said on Saturday (12/4).
An advanced team of Italian...
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Albania-Foreign nationals evacuated as chaos grows
Hundreds of foreign nationals and some Albanians on Friday (14/3) scrambled aboard evacuation helicopters to flee the spreading chaos in Europe's poorest country.
US and Italian military helicopters flew embassy dependants and other...
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KOSOVO: DEL PONTE
English/Nat
The chief of the U-N War Crimes Tribunal, Carla De Ponte, arrived in Pristina on Tuesday to meet U-N and K-FOR officials as well as Albanian and Serb leaders.
Del Ponte's visit comes amid media speculation that the U-S and...
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Assessment of likely reaction to Kosovo declaration of independence
1. Wide of Serbian flag outside national theatre
2. Wide of Belgrade street scene
3. Woman selling newspapers
4. Traffic
5. Exterior of office of Nebojsa Spaic, political analyst
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nebojsa Spaic, political...
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ALBANIA: APPOINTMENT OF NEW PRIME MINISTER BASHKIM FINO UPDATE
Albanian/Nat
Albania's growing revolt crept closer to the capital on Wednesday despite the appointment of a new prime minister who's from insurgent-held territory.
President Sali Berisha appointed Bashkim Fino, an economist from the...
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ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: ALBANIAN PRIME MINISTER FATOS NANO VISIT
English/Nat
Albania's prime minister has praised a decision to threaten Yugoslavia with more international sanctions over its police crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Fatos Nano, who was speaking in Jerusalem on Tuesday, said it...
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Albania - International force in Vlore
The first detachment of the multinational force to venture into Albania's rebel-controlled south toured the port of Vlore on Friday (18/4) and met with rebel leaders. Italian army scouts arrived in Vlore on Thursday, in the city which...
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ALBANIA: 5 KOSOVO REFUGEES KILLED BY LANDMINE LATEST
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Five members of a Kosovo Albanian family were killed when a landmine hit their car as they were fleeing towards Albania.
Having made an arduous journey towards Albania, the car's passengers got within 30 metres from...
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NATO troops step up security ahead of expected independence declaration
Gracanica
1. Wide of road leading into town of Gracanica
2. Close up of sign with name in Albanian and Serbian
3. Various of Swedish soldiers of the NATO force, KFOR, on foot patrol, in a Serb enclave of the town
4. Walking shot of...
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Presser by author of report on alleged KLA organ smuggling
FILE: Pristina, Kosovo - 12 December 2010
1. Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci watching vote tally during elections and making the 'thumbs up' sign
Paris, France - 16 December 2010
2. Mid of Dick Marty, Rapporteur for the Committee on...
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ALBANIA: US ENVOY ATWOOD KOSOVO CRISIS WARNING
English/Nat
A special representative of President Bill Clinton has accused Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic of systematically ethnic cleansing Kosovo.
Brian Atwood, in charge of the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo, also warned that...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Albania's rogue plastic surgeons alarm doctors
Spurred on by the pressure to look good in social media selfies young Albanian women are being lured by low price offers from beauty salons that carry out rogue plastic surgery without medical controls and in a legal vacuum to the alarm...
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Western Balkan states move towards deeper economic ties
Prime ministers from Western Balkans countries on Saturday agreed on a road map to deepen their regional economic cooperation as part of the process for joining the European Union.
The agreement was reached at a meeting in...
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U.S. and Albania Defense Leaders Meet
Defense Secretary Mattis met with visiting Albanian counterpart Defense Minister Olta Xhacka on Tuesday at the Pentagon.
The leaders expressed gratitude for each other's commitment within NATO, and discussed the threat of...