DUKAGJIN/ 36 questioned by police The 14-year-old girl could not bear life in the mountains; she asked to return to Bardhej By BRIKENA SHLLAKU Grief and tears in the Bregu family. The door of the house in the village of Bardhej has been open since Wednesday evening to all friends
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
By BRIZIDA GJIKONDI The exploitation of youth by politics as a national crime
CEZ: Cause, unpaid bills National road in the north blocked, protesters: No collective punishment CEZ: Cause, unpaid bills Shkodër, village without power for a month, residents take to the streets in protest National road in the north blocked, protesters: No collective punishment
2 WOUNDINGS Principal: How the fight at “Qemal Stafa” began On pages 8-9
THE SCANDAL IN ITALY Berlusconi confesses: I didn’t have sex with the girls On page 25
CEZ: Cause, non-payment of bills National road blocked in the North, protesters: No collective punishment By BRIKENA SHLLAKU While the “African heat” scorches you, the residents of the village of Grilë in the Gruemirë commune in the Malësi e Madhe district have been without elect
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CURSIVE REALITY BRIKENA CANI TIRANE — Today you will see more exposed legs in the streets of the capital. It is a youth initiative inviting young people in Tirana — yesterday they called girls — to show off their legs as part of a campaign called "Idealiteti ASA[?], Megaklubi Art
Yesterday, the first meeting of the Technical Commission in the OSCE offices in Tirana on page 6 By Brikena KAMENICA The information and all matters to be sent by the Secretary General and the editor-in-chief and the editor-in-chief were settled yesterday at the first meeting of
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Opinion of the Day By BRIKENA YZEIRAJ Just as the national football team surprised Albanians by qualifying for the first time for a European championship, just as surprising... Skanderbeg without a horse in Paris Continues on page 17
Today’s Opinion By BRIKENA YZEIRAJ Just as the national football team surprised Albanians by qualifying for the first time for a European championship, equally surprising... Continues on page 17 Skënderbeu without a horse in Paris
Adi Krasta’s wife leaves the Ministry of Culture Adi Krasta’s wife leaves the Ministry of Culture
By BRIKENA SHLLAKU The great tragedy of 9 January 2004 in Vlora is being asked to be forgotten by everyone, both the opposition and the government. “We are more offended, more humiliated and more disappointed than ever.” This is what the relatives of the victims declared yesterda
The convicted man’s father: We were terrified, I have no conflict with anyone Explosion at the home of Klodian Selimi, convicted for the killing of Ibrahim Basha. Residents speak By BRIKENA METAJ Lazarat is shaken. The home of one of the men convicted for the killing of the RENEA
The Archdiocese of Shkodër and Lezhë reacts to minimize the phenomenon of revenge The Catholic Church, appeal to the judiciary: Give maximum sentences, not leniency The frightening increase in the number of killings for blood feuds, revenge and other motives from the north to the
SHKODER/ 13-YEAR-OLD FOUND DEAD, 3 SUSPECTED PERPETRATORS IN HANDCUFFS THE MINOR DROWNS UNDER NAILS FOR A GOLD NECKLACE Agim Leraj went out to graze the livestock, but was found in the waters of the Shalz river. He refused to give the young men the necklace he was wearing around