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INTERVIEW / Hekur Çikalleshi General: I left but the evidence may be destroyed On page 3

Ambulance tender Minister Solis, fraud involving 200 thousand USD Solis has misinformed after receiving the Russian “Zis”, with the written offer, asking to count the package of 126 thousand dollars. In a tender that has been announced, as the minister himself says, 500 ambulances will be procured for emergency response, while the vehicles will arrive from the customs, it is writ... On page 5

Still a taboo AIDS, we speak only 1 day a year Yesterday in Albania, on World AIDS Day, there was no witness to erase the secrets? of this cause, just as we agree two as not written, no one went, no one did not...[?] and there may be not even a virion that comes... On page 7

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