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Tirana Times

Elections deadlocked?!

TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Albania is heading toward a deadlock for the local municipal elections after the two main political groupings _ governing Democratic Party-led and the opposition Socialist Party-led coalitions are
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Poni issues 2005 general election’s lists

Deputy Interior Minister Ferdinand Poni said Thursday that the Interior Ministry had distributed the decision to all local authorities to issue the voters’ list according to those used in the July 2005
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Signs of reconciliation between Berisha and Rama

While political negotiations between the majority and the opposition were failing there were positive signs of a possible meeting between Prime Minister Sali Berisha of the Democratic Party and Tirana Mayor Edi
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Olldashi against Rama

The governing Democrats also decided officially that their Interior Minister Sokol Olldashi would run for the post of Tirana mayor against the existing Mayor Edi Rama, who has yet to declare his
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KQZ in difficulty

The Central Election Commission, or KQZ, is finding itself in a very difficult position. Political parties rushed to register. That means they will first register as a political grouping, then they should
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Sport events in Peqini prison

TIRANA, Dec. 5 – The general department of prisons held a series of sport events at the 313 detention center on Wednesday. Senior officials, including Justice Minister Aldo Bumci and department head
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Cocaine traffickers arrested

TIRANA, Dec. 5 – In an operation that was broadcast by the Top Channel private television station, whose team happened to be nearby, police arrested two persons on Tuesday afternoon, on the
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Police intensify operations, arrests

TIRANA, Dec. 2 – Three persons were arrested Saturday for smuggling cows from neighboring Macedonia. The three, who were from the district of Bulqiza, were stopped with two trucks containing some 42
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