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Game of cat and mouse blacks out city (Reuters)
Reuters - A cat chasing a mouse in Tirana's main power station caused a 72-hour blackout across parts of the Albanian capital, the electricity company said on Friday.

Game of cat and mouse blacks out Albania's capital (Reuters)
Reuters - A cat chasing a mouse in Tirana's main power station caused a 72-hour blackout across parts of the Albanian capital, the electricity company said on Friday.

Bankers Petroleum to split Albanian and U.S. operations into separate companies
CALGARY - Bankers Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:BNK, AIM:BNK) said Wednesday it is spinning its Albanian heavy oil and North American shale gas businesses off into two different companies - mere days after one of Canada's biggest energy players announced a similar

Exports of Bulgaria Cigarette Plant Sofia BT Grows Fourfold in One Year
Wednesday The exports of Bulgaria's cigarette factory Sofia BT has grown over four times in the last year, its Director Krasimir Petrov announced Tuesday. The factory's production is realized in Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia,

Bankers Petroleum says to split Albanian And U.S. operations
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Bankers Petroleum Ltd. said its board has approved a proposal to split the company into two separate public companies. One company will have a continued focus on heavy oil in Albania and the other company will be a North

Macedonia: Thousands protest attack against ethnic Albanian leader; EU, US concerned
people demonstrated Tuesday against what they said was an attempt to assassinate the leader of a major ethnic Albanian opposition party in the northwest Macedonian city of Tetovo. Ali Ahmeti, a former rebel commander, was unhurt when gunmen sprayed his

The pro-American terrorists
On cue, within minutes of news that four Albanians were involved in a plot to attack American soldiers in New Jersey, we were treated to the familiar disclaimers of Albanian pro-Americanism, meant to keep us on program - lest the American people finally

Serbian president declares victory (AP)

AP - Serbia's pro-Western president is declaring victory in the country's parliamentary elections.

The Children's Palace will host the Festival of the Romanian Children Everywhere, dubbed The Green Grass of Home, on May 8-12. The event is organized under the Prime Minister's Chancellery's aegis, with the support from the Foreign Ministry's Departm
Some 200 children from the Romanian communities based around the Romanian borders and in the Balkans - namely the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Albania and Macedonia - as well as from the European Union member states Italy,

Greece's Emporiki Bank plans expansion in Bulgaria, Romania, Albania
Greece's Emporiki Bank, part of the Credit Agricole group, will be the vehicle for the plans of its French parent for expansion in Bulgaria, Romania and Albania, Dnevnik a.m. reports. The Emporiki plans are part of the group's three-pronged development

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In 1990 Albania ended 44 years of xenophobic communist rule and established a multiparty democracy. The transition has proven difficult as corrupt governments have tried to deal with severe unemployment, the collapse of a fraudulent nationwide investment scheme, widespread gangsterism, and massive refugee influxes from neighboring Kosovo.

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