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SPAK Brings New Charges Against Former Deputy PM Balluku

Tirana Times, August 07, 2026 — Albania’s Special Prosecution Office Against Corruption and Organized Crime has brought new allegations against former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, widening one of the most politically sensitive
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Milošević’s Language Returns to Serbia’s Government

Ethnic Cleansing Remark Tests Serbia’s Claim to Have Broken With Milošević A Serbian minister’s declared willingness to expel Kosovo Albanians has drawn condemnation across the region and Europe. Belgrade’s refusal to remove
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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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Journalists threatened

TIRANA, Dec. 1 – The Union of Journalists Association complained last Friday that four journalists؍atilda Troka, Irma Hoxhaj, Xhemil Beharaj and Vladimir Mucajةn the southernwestern city of Fier were threatened by a
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Moisiu awards medal to U.S. lawyer

TIRANA, Dec. 5 – Albanian President Alfred Moisiu awarded the Special Civil Merits medal to the U.S. lawyer Robert Utter for his assistance over the years to the Albanian law experts who
20 years ago
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New draft law on police

TIRANA, Dec. 3 – Deputy Interior Minister Gjergj Lezhja said that a new draft law on police, which he considered a major achievement, had been prepared. He announced this at a news
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Moisiu meets with USAID head

TIRANA, Dec. 5 – Albanian President Alfred Moisiu met on Tuesday with the head of the USAID mission in Albania, Edward Landau, to discuss different topics related to his institution’s involvement in
20 years ago
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Museum opens Mother Teresa pavilion

TIRANA, Dec. 5 – The National Museum inaugurated on Tuesday a new pavilion it had prepared for the planned museum focusing on Mother Teresa. Prime Minister Sali Berisha, together with several ministers,
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Berisha meets with Presevo valley Albanians

TIRANA, Dec. 5 – Prime Minister Sali Berisha met Tuesday with a group of ethnic Albanian leaders from the Presevo Valley, Bujanovc, and Medvegje in southern Serbia. Berisha said that the agreement
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Mustafaj meets Adriatic 3 Charter colleagues

TIRANA, Dec. 3 – On Sunday in Brussels, Belgium, Foreign Minister Besnik Mustafaj met with his counterparts from Croatia and Macedonia, the U.S. Assistant State Secretary Daniel Fried, and NATO senior official
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