The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/05/2009
Tirana - Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha fired the nation's culture minister late Wednesday after a local television channel showed him sexually harassing a woman seeking a job in his office. The largest private TV in Albania, the Top Channel, p...
crookedbrains (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
Nail Mosaic. A few years ago Tirana (Albania)-based artist Saimir Strati made a very large mosaic out of nails, a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. According to the Guinness Book of World Records its world's largest nail mosaic with about 500,000 industrial nails . Using industrial nails, the artist re-created the self-portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci using nearly 400 kilos which covered a 2 x 4m surface....
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/25/2009
Film News: School chief, production head arrested -- Staff and students at Albania’s Marubi academy of film and multi-media in Tirana are staging a strike and lock-in after police arrested the school’s rector, a professor and three students during violent protests sparked by a property dispute.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/23/2009
Tirana - A border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia is stoking fears in Albania that its own accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) may be slowed as a result, local reports said Monday. Slovenia and Croatia are at loggerheads o...
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 02/19/2009
According to the Guinness Book of World Records it's the world's largest nail mosaic.You could look it up.Saimir Strati (below), a 42-year-old Tirana (Albania)-based artist, made the piece (top) in August and September of 2006."Using industrial nails, the artist recreated...
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 02/17/2009
Milan, February 17 - Alessandro Nesta's season ended Tuesday after an operation to resolve his chronic back problems, AC Milan said Monday. Nesta, 32, who this year has only played one half of an October friendly in Tirana, was operated by the same ...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
Albania's Mother Teresa Tirana International Airport on Monday reported sharp growth in passenger traffic in 2008 despite the global economic downturn.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 02/12/2009
Former Albanian Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu was charged on Wednesday with abuse of power over the deadly blast at an army depot outside Tirana last March. Albanian prosecutors pressed the same charge against former Chief of Staff Luan Hoxha, former secretary general of the Ministry of Defense and two other former commanders in Albanian Army. The blast at an army depot, about 10 kilometers west of...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Tirana - The Socialist opposition in Albania was leading Prime Minister Sali Berisha's Democratic Party (DP) in popularity polls ahead of the June 28 parliamentary poll, a survey released Wednesday said. Of those polled by the US-based Zogby Internat...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
[JURIST] An Albania Supreme Court judge was shot four times outside his home in the capital Tirana, according to local police Monday. Ardian Nuni, a former law professor nominated to the high court in 2007, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries to his shoulder and leg. The attack, which took place over the weekend, was described by the Supreme Court in a press release as a serious attack...
Twelfth Bough (Free subscription) | 02/05/2009
Remember Efraim Diveroli? In case you forgot, he's the young twenty-something kid who landed a $300 million contract with the Pentagon, selling 50 year old ammunition from China to Afghanistan, for instance, which is totally illegal? He also sold the ammunition that exploded in Tirana, Albania on 3/15/08, killing 26 people and injuring hundreds, which is totally murderous. He was called to testify...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
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LSI Online News (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
Albania - Prosound is the new HK Audio dealer in Tirana, Albania. The company reports that it has already begun to make excellent headway in the city. In a relatively short period of time, ...
Cool Things (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
The largest nail mosaic was created by Saimir Strati at the International Centre of Culture in Tirana September 4, 2006. View the pictures of his cool creation below. Source Visit Saimir Strati's website at http://www.mosaicart-sast.com Also wee his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saimir_Strati
Albania Economy (Free subscription) | 01/29/2009
Tirana, Jan. 28, 2008 (AE) – India's government approved on Thursday an agreement for avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and on capital (DTAA) between India and Albania. You can read the rest online...
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