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CLEAN : Albania votes with EU accession talks in mind
Albania votes in a parliamentary election with Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama hoping to boost his grip on power and lead the Balkan country into talks on European Union accession
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CLEAN : Italian Prime Minister calls for EU cooperation on migrants
Following a meeting with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni calls for EU countries to fulfill their obligations in the face of Europe's worst migrant crisis since World War II
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French President Macron on summit talks
French President Emmanuel Macron said that control of light weapons and ammunition, anti-radicalisation projects and transportation were the core subjects of the western Balkans summit held in Trieste on Wednesday.Trieste - 12 July...
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CLEAN : Russian aid centre in Serbia rebuffs spy fears
The Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Centre was set up in 2012 to provide Russia-funded emergency relief and humanitarian aid in the Balkans but some Western officials and analysts fear Moscow has underhand intentions of using it for...
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CLEAN : Thousands seek Albania government resignation
Thousands of opposition supporters protested Saturday in Albania's capital against Prime Minister Edi Rama's socialist government accusing it of links to organised crime in the impoverished Balkan nation
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CLEAN : Japan's Abe drums up pressure on North Korea in Bulgaria
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to drum up EU pressure on North Korea on Sunday while pledging to boost economic cooperation with Bulgaria and the Balkans
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CLEAN : EU pledges 100,000 places in migrant reception centres (2)
Some 100,000 places in reception centres will be provided along the Balkans migrant route starting in Greece to help the EU cope better with the historic influx European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker says (Footage by AFPTV...
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CLEAN : EU pledges 100,000 places in migrant reception centres
Some 100,000 places in reception centres will be provided along the Balkans migrant route starting in Greece to help the EU cope better with the historic influx European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker says (Footage by AFPTV...
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US envoy on Kosovo-Serbia relations, China's regional efforts
A top US official on Friday urged Kosovo and Serbia to resume dialogue on normalising their ties, saying the issue has an enormous impact on their people and the broader region.
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CLEAN : Chinese tourists say I do to Serbia
Far from the capital over in western Serbia locals in the tiny picturesque holiday village of Gostoljublje have found a way to profit from a huge boom in Chinese tourists to the Balkan state (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Albanian Prime Minister meets earthquake affected residents
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama meets with residents and municipal officials in Thumane one of the Albanian cities most affected by a powerful earthquake that struck the Balkan country leaving several dead and hundreds injured (Footage...
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CLEAN : Thousands pray in protest against Montenegro religion law
Thousands of followers of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro gather for a mass prayer and protest march against a new law that has spiked tensions in the tiny Balkan state (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : N.Macedonia: right-wing leader Mickoski votes in parliamentary elections
The leader of the Macedonian right-wing party, VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, is voting in the early parliamentary elections, organised in the second wave of the new coronavirus epidemic in the Balkan country (Footage by AFPTV via Getty...
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CLEAN : Montenegro's opposition leader claims victory in parliamentary elections
The leader of the main pro-Serb opposition force in Montenegro, Zdravko Krivokapic, claims victory in the parliamentary elections over the pro-Western President Milo Djukanovic who has ruled the small Balkan country for nearly three...
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CLEAN : Greek olive harvest becomes a family affair due to labour shortage
Greek olive oil manufacturers are having to rely more than ever on family members to help harvest olives, as a result of a shortage of labourers - mostly from the Balkans - who have not been able to help with the harvest due to...
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CLEAN : New wave of epidemic in Bosnia, sharp rise in deaths
Morgues in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, are full these days, hospitals are saturated: Bosnia is facing a new wave of the coronavirus epidemic while the quantities of vaccines that have arrived so far in this poor Balkan country are...
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CLEAN : 'Vaccine tourists' flock to Serbia for free Covid-19 jab
People from throughout the Balkans queue outside a vaccination centre in Belgrade to receive a Covid-19 vaccine after the country's authorities authorised foreigners to receive the jab (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : First voters cast their ballots in Albania's parliamentary elections
The first voters in Albania's parliamentary elections cast their ballots at a school in Tirana, as the country chooses between Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is seeking a third term, and a disparate opposition determined to...
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VOICED : Merkel says CDU unlikely to form next German government
At an informal summit at Brdo Castle in Slovenia, involving European Union heads of state and Western Balkan leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that although Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Armin Laschet is determined...
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VOICED : Policía de Colombia vincula al clan del capturado Otoniel con cinco mafias en el mundo
El Clan del Golfo, el principal cartel de la cocaína en Colombia que encabezaba el detenido Otoniel, tiene una red de tráfico que se extiende a 28 países donde opera en alianza con mafias mexicanas, italianas y de los Balcanes, reveló el...
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CLEAN : Political expert and Bulgarians react after government loses no-confidence vote
Political analyst Daniel Smilov and residents of Bulgarian capital Sofia react after Bulgaria's government loses a no-confidence vote in parliament, filed by the opposition, bringing fresh political turmoil in the Balkan country that...
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CLEAN : 'We can live together': church helps bridge Bosnia's deep divisions
Decades after bloody fighting between Catholics and Muslims ripped apart Bosnia's Bugojno, a new church has provided a rare opportunity to bridge the divides in the deeply fractured Balkan country (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Croatians worry about switch to euro amidst soaring inflation
Croatia hopes that its upcoming switch to the euro will bring the Balkan country some semblance of protection amid soaring inflation and precarious geopolitical headwinds rattling Europe (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : German Interior Minister opens meeting with Western Balkan states
Nancy Faeser, German Minister of the Interior, opens the meeting with her counterparts from the Western Balkan countries and some other EU countries (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)