Stranded in Corfu ... again
Since we're not on a set schedule, Leigh and I don't worry too much about missing the ferry to Albania. Instead, we focus on exploring Corfu...
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Mother Teresa's Remains Fought Over By India, Albania
Posted 10.14.2009 | World
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India and Albania have engaged in a row over where Mother Teresa's remains should be buried. India rejected Albania's demands that her remains be sent...
From Albania to Venezuela: 53 Foreign Language Film Submissions (and counting)
indieWIRE | indieWIRE | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
The full submission list isn’t released until October 1st, but fifty-three countries have now officially submitted films to the 82nd Annua...
Human Trafficking Crackdown Avoided In Albania With Speedboats
New York Times | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
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It was only after her trafficker sealed her mouth with electrical tape, drugged her and threatened to kill her family that the childlike woman, now 27...
Today's Elections in Albania and the Role of Youth
Erin Mazursky | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
This moment in Albania brings so much possibility for hope yet also so much possibility to lose that hope.
World In Photos: June 23, 2009
Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
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Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...
Aleksander Keka, Albanian Opposition Leader, Killed By Roadside Bomb
Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
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An explosive device killed a conservative politician as he drove through northern Albania on Thursday, 10 days ahead of the country's parliamentary el...
From Guantanamo to the South Pacific: Is This a Joke?
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
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Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?
Obama hails 5,000 more NATO forces for Afghanistan
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.05.2009 | World
STRASBOURG, France — President Barack Obama hailed "strong and unanimous support" from NATO allies on Saturday for his stepped-up anti-terror st...
NATO: Albania, Croatia Join
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — Albania and Croatia became NATO's newest members Wednesday in a historic expansion into the volatile western Balkans region ...
A Letter to Barack Obama from a Guantanamo Uighur
Andy Worthington | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
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Mr. President, seventeen of my brothers remain in Guantánamo today. It is three years since I left the prison, and still they are there. Please end their suffering soon.
Bad News, Good News For The Guantanamo Uighurs
Andy Worthington | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
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First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in M...
CIA Secret Rendition Policy Backed by Human Rights Groups?
Tom Hayden | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
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If the Justice Department wants to defend renditions as constitutional on "national security" grounds, human rights groups should meet them in court and seek a better outcome.
Forgetting Kosovo
Jessicah Curtis | Posted 01.23.2009 | World
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Both Serbs and Albanians in Mitrovica, particularly those under 30, seemed tired of maintaining the levels of inter-ethnic hatred seen during the war.
Albania's Troops Leaving Iraq
AP | Posted 01.18.2009 | World
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TIRANA, Albania — Albania's Defense Ministry says the country is pulling its 218 troops out of Iraq. Albanian troops have been serving in the n...
Obama Administration Needs to Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs
Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
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Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.
How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama
Andy Worthington | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
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Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.
From Guantanamo to the United States? Meet the Uighurs
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
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On Tuesday, in an extraordinary and unprecedented ruling in a US District Court, Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled that 17 wrongly imprisoned Chinese Muslims...
Catholic Priest Officiates at Fully-Uniformed Nazi's Funeral
Julia Gorin | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
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Commander of the second-largest concentration camp complex of World War II -- Croatia's Jasenovac -- passed away last week and received a burial in hi...
In Albania
Mona Gable | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
In May of 1999 I flew from Budapest into Tirana, the desiccated capital of Albania. I had come to this city at the edge of the Adriatic to follow a group of American doctors and nurses as they journeyed to the refugee camps.
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