Financial Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Albania's Socialist opposition yesterday ended a three-day protest in central Tirana by pledging to stay out of parliament until the government agrees to a partial...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
We may be smug about the EU in the west, but for the troubled Balkans it offers a vision of hope Where on earth, would 88% of a nation's citizenry want to join us (and Herman Van Rompuy ) in the world's least welcoming club? Steam straight past Brussels and head south. We're going to Albania , because it tells us something slightly shaming about ourselves – and our smug insularity. Albania?...
NOTCouture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Loving these asymmetrical gear earrings in sterling silver by Tirana Jewelry!
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Demonstrators in Tirana are camping in a city square to demand a probe into election fraud and a recount. This will never happen, says the country's conservative prime minister.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
TIRANA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Albanian opposition Socialist Party supporters launched their latest protest Friday to demand the government either recount the vote in a controversial June 28 election or hold another.
The Rose Claims Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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rsseurope.net | Published News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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Albania Economy (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A light earthquake shook the Albanian capital Tirana, early on Wednesday, with no injures or damages reported. You can read the rest online...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The traffic circles in Tirana, the capital of Albania, are a free-for-all. There are no lanes. There are no signs. There are no rules. On...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I know that the speed and scale of this week's blogroll expansion is significant indeed, perhaps akin to that of a uchronical European Union that had decided to expand to include such cities as Tirane, Vladivostok, and Diyarbakir by 1995. In my defense, all these are very good blogs. Phil Plait's blog Bad Astronomy is a famous blog, one that not only takes a look at the wonders of outer space but one...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Tirana - Albanian police detained a man after determining that an expensive SUV he was driving was stolen from an Italian football star three years ago, Top Channel TV reported Wednesday. Police said it impounded the Range Rover jeep when police foun...
Albania Economy (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Albanian controversial oil magnate Rezart Taci handed himself over to police in Tirana on Thursday, after the local district court ordered his arrest following charges of assault over the beating of local publisher, Mero Baze. You can read the rest online...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Several hundred Albanian journalists staged a rally on Wednesday in capital city of Tirana, protesting the assault on a newspaper editor. The protesters gathered in front of Prime Minister Sali Berisha's office. Several threw shoes at the building. But police made no arrests at the scene. Mero Baze, editor of the newspaper Tem A, was beaten unconscious late Monday in a bar in downtown Tirana. Police...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berishaon Tuesday condemned the attack on a local journalist as a "shameful, grave and unacceptable act for a free society." Mero Baze, editor of the TemA newspaper, was beaten up in a bar in downtown capital city of Tirana. Witness said he was punched and kicked around by attackers and left unconscious. "Mr. Berisha reiterates that the Albanian government...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
TIRANA, Albania - Pieces of a British destroyer that was badly damaged by Albanian mines in 1946, straining relations between the two countries for decades, appear to have...
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