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Basha lobbies for NATO membership in Brussels

TIRANA, March 12 – Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha had high-level meetings with NATO officials in Brussels to discuss the likely membership invitation the country hopes to be offered next month at the
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Britons to be extradited to Albania

TIRANA, March 11 – A British judge ruled in favor of extraditing a Blackburn, UK man accused of sexually abusing young orphans in Albania. The case will now be sent to Home
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Albanians arrested for drug trafficking in Italy

BARI, March 12 – Three Italians and 18 Albanians were arrested in several Italian cities on charges of drug smuggling between Italy and Albania. Arrests took place in Rome, Florence, Padova, Lecce,
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Macedonian injured in cement factory incident

TIRANA, March 12 – Six workers were injured in an accident at a cement plant in Fushe Kruje. One of the injured workers remains in serious conditions. The injured workers, an Albanian,
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3 persons arrested for human smuggling

GJIROKASTRA, March 10 – Gjirokastra police arrested three persons accused of assisting nine other persons illegally cross the border into Greece for a payment of 18,000 Euros. Greek police turned back the
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2 teenagers die of burning

TIRANA, March 10 – Two teenagers died following a fire in their house in the outskirts of Tirana. Renato and Klezart Preni, 13 and 15 years old, were in their house in
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Drug and human traffickers sentenced to imprisonment

TIRANA, March 11 – Two Albanians were sentenced to imprisonment for trafficking drugs. Bledar Balliu and Aleksander Kolici were sentenced to, respectively,, six and four years imprisonment for organizing a drug trafficking
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