| June 30, 2007 | - Hundreds of Kosovar Albanians demanding independence from Serbia threw toilet paper at the parliament in Pristina.
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Washington Post
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| June 13, 2007 | -
President Bush became the first sitting president to visit Albania, where Prime Minister Sali Berisha welcomed him as “the greatest and most distinguished guest we have ever had in all times.” “Bush is eager for affection,” wrote Fidel Castro in an editorial published in the Cuban newspaper Granma entitled “The Tyrant visits Tirana.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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| May 8, 2007 | - Four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian, and a Turk were arrested for plotting to invade Fort Dix, New Jersey.
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NJ Star-Ledger
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| April 4, 2007 | - Lapsed Albanian
Communists were rediscovering God.
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Washington Post
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| March 23, 2007 | - Four teachers in Xhyre, Albania, were censured after their students caught them drinking and having sex behind a blackboard. “I saw them acting shamefully,” said fourth-grader Elton Cuka to the Shqip daily. “Would you call someone a teacher,” asked Xhevahir Hohxa, a father, “who drinks raki at ten in the morning and gets drunk and chases the schoolgirls?”
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Reuters via Scotsman
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| March 4, 2007 | - Ethnic Albanian Ramush Haradinaj, a former bouncer who became prime minister of Kosovo, awaited trial for cleansing Serbs.
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Washington Post
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| August 14, 2006 | - Five Uighurs found life in Albania “better than Guantánamo” but longed to move to Toronto.
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The New York Times
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| November 11, 2005 | - There was a severe shortage of electric power in Albania.
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BBC News
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Albanian guerrillas released several Macedonian Slavs who were kidnapped, tortured, and forced to perform oral sex on one another.
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| July 31, 2001 | - The Serbian government confirmed that three blindfolded bodies found in a mass grave were those of Albanian-American brothers sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment for entering Yugoslavia without visas.
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| May 8, 2001 | - An Albanian woman, formerly penniless, sold her newborn two-headed calf to an anonymous American group for $25,000.
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| March 27, 2001 | -
Fighting with Albanian rebels continued in Macedonia; the Bush Administration and NATO were refusing to get involved, preferring to wait until they were humiliated by large massacres and ethnic cleansing.
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| August 1, 2000 | - An American soldier pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of a Kosovo Albanian girl.
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