HORROR IN TIRANA/ LULE BIBA'S MOTHER: SHE HAS NOT SPOKEN FOR 3 DAYS Vashë Peposhi: He blackened her, but we said “let's see, she will change”. If he had been in the room, Hyseni would have thrown the other son out the window too (In the photo:) Hysen Biba, leaving court two days ago. The 2-year-old boy yesterday at his mother's home, Lule Biba On page 3

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Opinion of the Day By ILIR DHIMA If it were ever forgotten to mention the historian Edwin Jacques’s statement, according to which: “We can never know who conceived that historic flag...” In the footsteps of our first official flag Continues on page 20

Opinion of the Day By DRITAN HILA I don't know whether you or any of your inquisitive companions asked your grandfather why he didn't take part in the Olympics to win a medal in the discipline he himself invented!... A conversation with little Medina Continues on page 21

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DUKAGJIN/ 36 questioned by police The 14-year-old girl could no longer bear life in the mountains; she asked to return to Bardhej By BRIKENA SHLLAKU Grief and tears in the Bregu family. The house door in the village of Bardhej has been open since Wednesday evening for all friends and acquaintances, offering condolences. The wailing of the women is mixed with the silence of the men, who try to be strong. Many people are coming and going... On page 11

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THE EMBASSY OF ISRAEL OPENS/ Lieberman in Tirana: Kosovo? A complicated situation Berisha: Zogu helped them, the only nation that did not take part in the Holocaust Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, was yesterday at the ceremony to open the Embassy of Israel in Tirana. During a joint press conference with the Albanian minister, Edmond Panariti, Lieberman said: “I see the opening of the embassy as a new impetus for relations between the two countries. If someone had told me back when I was a student in the Soviet Union that one day I would become Israel's Foreign Minister and come to Albania to inaugurate the opening of the Israeli embassy in Tirana, I would never have believed it. This meeting is proof of how our countries have changed over these 20 years, with great dynamism and challenges, of how relations between the two countries, between the two nations and friends, have evolved. My reason for coming to Tirana,... On page 7

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