Page 5 EDITORIAL By Ylber Ismaili Will football calm us down? At last, the much-talked-about worldwide championship begins where it belongs, on the playing field. After being kept for twenty-nine days in FIFA offices, at lunches and dinners, in cafes and hotels, where pressure, inducements, the stick and the carrot, the Cologne bunker and pressure from the stands, swindlers, hackers. At least now this ball regime has started. And this time, as far as I can understand the wave? It has gathered people’s interest, the current of time overturns and kills it, it has at least closed and begun the turning of eyes and pockets. Ervini? and then gave orders to the cube; then the cube men with their capes when the shots, the threats? the secrets and the second thoughts? without going? spinning through mouths and gossip, and lying to them? to death. The football, together with the emotion of the locals and the mad, has drawn your attention and taken our minds, perhaps has softened it. It is a good thing that people submit calmly and not dead at home. Thus it continues: what benefits does football bring? The debate among divided people and the debate with the cube. Football distinguishes people. But will it change it? No. Hutbolli? will it still have the question of swallowed prides? [sic]

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The 18-year-old, who was kidnapped on 30 June in the early hours of the morning, was found dead around 6 p.m. In a phone call received yesterday around 8 p.m., Arnaldo Hoxha [?] informed citizen Gj. Kajo has requested? 50 million, otherwise they would kill his son. They repeated this threat 2-3 more times afterwards. Arnaldo Hoxha [?], 18, who yesterday in the early hours of the morning was found murdered [?.] Page 7

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The chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Joseph Biden, accused Greece of having become a haven for terrorists. According to him, organizations have been set up that certify the group of ELA’s killers? Brikanti? “For a long time the group has been pa…”? Page 3

Embassies in Tirana issue fewer visas than what was intended mug? [?.] last costs have risen. Sku? hidden? the market, parallel? continues to dominate? Page 5

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