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ITALY: NATO AIR EXERCISES OVER THE BALKANS GETS UNDERWAY
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NATO's Operation "Determined Falcon" got under way early on Monday.
NATO warplanes took off from air bases in Italy, Greece, France, Germany, Britain and the Adriatic Sea.
Allied leaders hope the flights over Albania and...
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Albania - Legislative elections
Voting got underway in Albania's legislative elections on Sunday
(29/6) with polling booths opening on time in the capital Tirana
and at least two towns in the chaotic south of the country.
President Berisha cast his vote in Tirana at...
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GERMANY: KOSOVO CRISIS: APACHE HELICOPTERS
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The Pentagon announced last week that it was deploying 24 Apache helicopters in Albania as part of NATO's extended operation in Yugoslavia.
The Apaches are designed to smash tanks and other armour with missiles, rockets and...
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ALBANIA: VLORA/DURRES: SUPPLIES OF URGENTLY NEEDED AID ARRIVE
English/Nat
Supplies of urgently needed food and medicine are finally getting through to people in Albania, even though the multinational force is yet to begin escorting aid convoys.
The Red Cross has spent the weekend delivering aid...
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KOSOVO: ETHNIC ALBANIANS PROTEST
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More than two-thousand ethnic Albanians have staged a protest against Russian peacekeepers in the Kosovo town of Orahovac.
The demonstrators were joined by Hashim Thaci, the prime minister of the self-styled Kosovo...
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Voting under way in elections that could affect country's EU ambitions
1. Mid of man casting ballot
2. Mid of election officials, woman stands in foreground
3. Pan from official taking notes to another official holding passport
4. Mid of voter behind ballot screen
5. Mid of woman voting
6. Mid of people...
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ALBANIA: CHILDREN SUFFER SERBIAN ATROCITIES
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Hundreds of refugees from Kosovo continue to pour over the region's border with Albania, bringing with them horrific stories of Serb brutality.
While it is impossible to verify the refugees' tales of atrocities, the...
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Albania - Embassies organize evacuation
Western European embassies organised the evacuation of their citizens from the Albanian capital, Tirana, on Thursday (13/3).
The streets of Tirana are uncharacteristically empty as reports of looting continue to circulate the capital....
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Albania - Berish calls for more protests
Former Albanian President Sali Berisha on Saturday (26/09) told a rally of about 3,000 of his supporters that street protests will continue until the government resigns. Berisha's speech in Tirana came despite calls from the...
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Albania - Shoot-out in village of Levan
At least 20 people were killed in a shoot-out in the southern
Albanian village of Levan on Thursday night (27/3), in one of
the worst clashes in a month of anarchy.
The village buried their dead on Friday.
Local police said most of the...
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Albania - Troops maintain tense vigil
Albanian troops were on Sunday (7/6) maintaining a tense vigil on the border with troubled Kosovo amid fears the escalating dispute will spill across more than one international boundary. Activity is now frantic, as refugees make their...
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Albania - OSCE envoy Vranitzky meets Sali Berisha
Armed rebels in southern Albania defied a Sunday morning (9/3) government deadline for turning in their weapons, but there was no sign of the army attempting to recapture any of seven rebel-held towns.
Rebels who seized Gjirokaster on...
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ALBANIA: REFUGEES FROM KOSOVO KEEP FLOODING IN
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Hundreds of ethnic Albanians are continuing to flee the fighting in the secessionist province of Kosovo for the relative safety of neighbouring Albania.
The United Nations refugee agency said some 400 refugees had trekked...
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Serbia - Proposals to Albanian community
The Serbian Minister of Information, Radmila Milintijevic, said Tuesday (10/3) the Serbian government is offering specific proposals to the Albanian community in Kosovo.
MS Radmila Milintijevic, Serbian Minister of Information, seated at...
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Albania - Tension high in Tirana after clashes
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 REFUGEE CRISIS UPDATE (2)
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The border between Kosovo and Albania remains open and overnight (10-11 April) approximately 3,000 more ethnic Albanians fled over the crossing point at Morini.
The refugees told horror stories of massacres and widescale...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO: REFUGEES CROSS THE BORDER
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Over a hundred ethnic Albanian men stumbled over the Kosovo border into Albania on Sunday bringing stories of abuse at the hands of Serb captors.
The men who had been separated from their families said they had been held...
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ALBANIA: VLORA: VIOLENCE ESCALATES AS PROTESTERS FIRE WEAPONS UPDATE
Albanian/Nat
Violence has escalated in the southern Albanian port town of Vlora after anti- government protesters started firing off weapons looted from an army base.
Faced with mob rule a state of emergency is in force throughout the...
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Albania - Unrest sweeps north
The anti-government revolt, which has been sweeping southern Albania, spread north for the first time on Tuesday (11/3), when residents of a major town north of Tirana apparently a military base and carted away weapons and...
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ALBANIA: FIRST SOLDIERS OF MULTINATIONAL FORCE ARRIVE
Italian/Eng/Nat
The first troops of a multinational force -- charged with protecting humanitarian aid convoys -- have arrived in the Albanian capital and the western Albanian port of Durres.
Two Italian military planes arrived in...
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ALBANIA: SHELTERS BUILT FOR KOSOVO REFUGEES
Jala, Albania 31 March 1999
1. Wide shot of ship at sea
2. View of wharf from ship
3. Man standing on wharf
4. Boats moored at wharf
5. Wide shot of refugees outside shelter
6. Child playing on ground
7. Men standing by clothesline
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Italy - Refugees flee Albania
The Italian Coast Guard was on Monday (17/6) still being called on to rescue and escort fishing boats and other vessels laden with refugees from Albania. Overnight Sunday, a fishing boat carrying more than 100 Albanian refugees,...
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ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: TRAUMA OF WAR
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An Albanian refugee camp is trying to help Kosovan children deal with the trauma of the war they have fled.
A scheme run by UNICEF is using basic therapy techniques to help the young children come to terms with their horrific...
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ALBANIA: SOCIALIST PARTY VOW TO CONTINUE ELECTION PROTEST
Albanian/Nat
Despite police beatings on Tuesday Albanian socialists have vowed to continue protesting against what they called fraudulent parliamentary elections.
Police charged hundreds of opposition leaders and their followers on...