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TIRANA, March 8 – Prosecutors in Durres have launched an investigation over suspicions that large amounts of hazardous waste from Italy entered Albania last summer to be illegally dumped. The waste was supposed to transit the country on the way to Macedonia to be destroyed, but there is no record of it making it there, according to media reports. “There are suspicions that chemical waste has entered Albania through port of Durres, which is the only port that processes the entrance of containers in the country. There are sufficient data to back up the start the penal proceedings. An investigation…