The Righteous Nov 9, 2009
A Little-Known Secret was that Albanian Muslims Hid Jews from the Nazis; Now a Survivor Reunites With Her Savior ... Johannna Neuman's journey from darkness to salvation is 70 years in the making, owing much of that to the Albanian family who saved her and her family during the Holocaust ... (Left: Johanna Neumann is reunited with Edip Pilku, an Albanian Muslim whose parents protected Neumann's family from the Nazis during World War II.). (CBS News)
How Sunday trading changed the UK Aug 28, 2009
" His concern is that the opt-out that the act gave to workers who didn't want to work on Sundays is not being enacted, and his group is calling for a "family day" for parents to be given a statutory day off at the weekend, if they want one. It's great that some families make use of more visitor attractions being open to have exciting days out together, he says, but too many youngsters are dragged to the shopping mall every Sunday and think the day is all about consumerism. But feminist Kathy... (BBC News -- UK)
Riviera at beach-bum prices Aug 5, 2009
Albania is blessed with fascinating inland spots but its highlight is the astonishingly pretty Ionian coastline, dubbed the Albanian Riviera ... Despite it being the high season, the beach on our doorstep is almost deserted, save for a few playful young Albanian families and a handful of bizarre grey "concrete mushrooms" built relics from the Hoxha regime ... Dhermi Hotel's terrace restaurant serves fine Albanian coffee and inexpensive but deliciously fresh seafood. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Kosovo Serbs seize UN courthouse Jul 29, 2009
Serbs had staged rallies outside the court for several weeks, preventing ethnic Albanian court employees from crossing the bridge over the Ibar River that divides Mitrovica into a Serb-run north and an ethnic Albanian south ... In February, some 150 Kosovo Serb police officers were suspended for refusing to take orders from the ethnic Albanian authorities in Kosovo's capital, Pristina. (Yahoo News -- Kosovo)
Wary of change Jul 29, 2009
We are in Gracanica, a Serb enclave in the middle of Kosovo, surrounded on all sides by the majority Albanian-speaking population ... "There are threats from Kosovo Albanians, trying to kidnap people," he says ... "I don't feel safe here. My mother has trouble with the neighbour - he's Albanian. You don't have the things here you need for a normal life.". (BBC News -- Europe)
Serbia rejects Kosovo trade-off Jul 29, 2009
Mr Kostunica's comments come a week after ethnic Albanian and Serbian leaders held their first face-to-face meeting since 1999 on the long-term future of the breakaway Serbian province ... The United Nations special envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, said Serbia was willing to give everything but independence, while the majority ethnic Albanians in Kosovo wanted nothing but independence ... Nato bombing forced the Serb army out of Kosovo in 1999, after Serbia's crackdown on ethnic Albanians had... (Yahoo News -- Serbia & Montenegro)
Serbian leader calls snap polls Jul 29, 2009
Kosovo's declaration of independence on 17 February came nearly a decade after Nato forces expelled Serbian forces from the majority ethnic Albanian territory. The US and most EU states have recognised Pristina's unilateral move. (Yahoo News -- Kosovo)
Kosovo riots 'were orchestrated' Jul 29, 2009
Bridges over the Ibar river that divides the Serb north from the ethnic Albanian south were closed. Lethal means. (Yahoo News -- Kosovo)
David Denby: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s “Lorna’s Silence.” Jul 27, 2009
In their new film, Lorna s Silence, opening July 31, Lorna (Arta Dobroshi), a pretty young Albanian woman who illegally purchased Belgian citizenship, lives with a pathetic Belgian husband (J. r. (New Yorker)
The Citizen's Cinema Jul 2, 2009
"We learn that those skills mostly involve creatively bludgeoning bad guys over the head and neck. There's some delight in watching the typically tranquil Neeson dismantle hordes of Albanian criminals with his bare hands. But the contrivance of him, at 55, doing so unscathed for most of the movie tired me out on "Taken. " Laughable are the circumstances of him saving a pop singer's life in a scene early in the film, and later escaping the clutches of a cadre of bad guys while his hands are... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
* World News Quick Take Jun 25, 2009
Ceku, 59, was the commander of the Kosovo Albanian insurgent army which fought Serbia until NATO became involved in 1999, eventually ousting Belgrades security forces. SYRIA US to return ambassador. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Stoneham native earns top foreign post at USAID May 23, 2009
As for tackling Albanian, she found it to be a very difficult language, linguistically closest to ancient Illyrian, a dead tongue. It s a very exciting time to be associated with the Foreign Service and it s a very exciting time to be associated with this administration in our work abroad and we re hiring lots of people, she said, encouraging local residents to apply. (Stoneham Sun, MA)
Touring Kosovo an exercise in diplomacy May 17, 2009
" To most people in Kosovo, 90 percent of whom are ethnically Albanian, Bill Clinton is a hero for the massive NATO bombing campaign in 1999 that did what just about no one at the time expected: prompted Serbian nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic to relent, paving the way for Kosovo to make its way as a protectorate of the United Nations and finally, early last year, to declare itself an independent country. To this large Albanian majority, the city in the west is known as Peja. For the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Ethiopia: Country's Struggle for Democracy and the Rule of Law Mar 28, 2009
The TPLF, a partisan force purportedly established to struggle for four million people among Ethiopia's 76 million people on the one hand, while subscribing to an Albanian brand of Marxism-Leninism on the other, has been operating between these bounds and the greater demand of the Ethiopian people for fundamental fairness, the rule of law, and democracy. To improve its image as an Ethiopianist force, the TPLF and other opposition groups created the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic... (allAfrica.com)
'Ebony Ensemble' Mar 28, 2009
The nails pounded into Christ's hands and feet were wrought by an Albanian Muslim and resemble decorative jewelry more than utilitarian clasps, reflecting the idea that Pontius Pilate may have asked for special nails to nail this "special guy" up on the cross. An ebony carving of Abraham - the father of Judaism, Islam and Christianity - stands like a sentinel at one end, his not-fully-realized face carved in ebony, an extremely hard wood from the Island of Madagascar. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Witness causes headaches for Gotti offspring Mar 3, 2009
Most of the singing at Carneglia's ongoing trial in Brooklyn has been done by Alite, a Gambino organized crime family associate who grew up wanting to be a made member but wasn't allowed to because he's Albanian, not Italian. New York's Gambino family has been the subject of a steady stream of government indictments and prosecutions since John Gotti, the so-called "Dapper Don," was sentenced to life in prison in 1992. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Prison break in Greece sets manhunt Feb 24, 2009
For the second time in nearly three years, a notorious bank robber was lifted out of a prison where he was being held along with his Albanian accomplice in a rented chopper amid fire from prison guards. Within hours, hundreds of people had joined more than a dozen fan clubs on Facebook celebrating the pair. (Insight on the News)
Italy torn by racial strains Feb 21, 2009
The day after the rape, separate groups of Albanians and Romanians were beaten up on the margins of a march by a small far-right party ... The number of people who say they are scared of immigrants has dropped gradually from a peak of more than 70% in 1993-94 - a period that saw massive arrivals of Albanian immigrants on Italy's south-eastern coast - to a level close to the European average of about 35%, says Giovanni Giulio Valtolina, an expert at the Milan-based migration research foundation,... (BBC News -- Europe)
Kosovo Struggles 1 Year After Independence Feb 17, 2009
But a year after the majority Albanian territory defiantly declared independence from Serbia, the elation has given way to frustration. Bombs still explode in northern areas tensely divided between Serbs and ethnic Albanians ... But Ahmeti, like 90 percent of Kosovo's people, is ethnic Albanian. (CBS News -- World)
Letters to the Editor (Feb. 9) Feb 16, 2009
albanianreverend wrote on Feb 9, 2009 8:24 AM:" Hey Pippi - Nice job on making an assumption. Someone tries to make a point about a safety issue, and you try turning it back on them. Wow, there is the problem, no one can take responsibility. i.e."I almost got hit by a car, it must have been the other drivers fault, it couln't have been mine ... Pippi wrote on Feb 9, 2009 11:48 AM:" Yes, Albanian, I'll make that assumption with 95% confidence. Did you conveniently miss that part?If you and Sonya... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
