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Health System Desperately Needs Reforms

TIRANA, July 30 – Prime Minister Sali Berisha asked the new Health Minister Anila Godo to conduct deep reforms in the health system in order to fight corruption among the white blouses
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Serbia Hands Over Karadzic

TIRANA, July 24 – Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was captured in Belgrade on Monday and is awaiting extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Albanian Prime Minister
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Turkish attaché rewarded with medal

TIRANA, July 29 – Defense Minister Gazmend Oketa awarded the Distinguished Services medal to the Turkish military attaché in Tirana Col. Hasmet Akyuz in a ceremony at the ministry. Oketa highly appreciated
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False bomb alarm alerts Tirana airport

TIRANA, July 12 – A phone call caused a scare Friday at Mother Teresa Tirana International Airport as all people were evacuated from the terminal and flights postponed. A phone call at
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Pedophilia trial extended

TIRANA, July 16 – The pedophilia trial of two Britons and a Greek citizen may soon engulf other foreigners in Albania, this time the medical personnel of the ABC clinic who had
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Albanians Arrested For Setting Fire

TIRANA, July 16 – Following a series of fires around the country, police intensified work to arrest a number of persons who set fire in forests and other places to clear them
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Fires threaten Albania

TIRANA, July 14 – Albanians were assisted by a Canadair plane of the Italian civil protection to help extinguish fires that have been discovered in many areas in the country. Albanian emergency
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3 officials arrested for corruption

VLORA, July 12 – Three officials of Vlora were arrested and charged with abuse of post in cases of property restitution. Genc Pajozaqi, Sokol Kucaj and Fatmir Xhena were arrested last week
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Bulgarian arrested with forged documents

DURRES, July 13 – A Bulgarian was arrested by the Albanian police in the port city of Durres while trying to board a ferry ship en route to Bari, Italy with forged
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