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Mother Teresa remembered, 100 years on

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Toplica

Albania, Kosovo and neighbouring Macedonia honoured Mother Teresa last week on the 100th anniversary of her birth in Skopje, now in Macedonia, to Albanian parents.

In the Albanian capital of Tirana hundreds of people of all ages gathered on Thursday morning to place red roses at the Mother Teresa monument on the square also bearing her [...]

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The Bloody Foreigners Gig

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Toplica

Time: 20 August at 20:00 - 21 August at 23:30. Location: The Good Ship, 289 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR. Ph: 07949 008253, London, United Kingdom.

The Bloody Foreigners will be delivering another spine shivering, aphrodisiac inflating performance at the Good Ship. So if you’re up for a sorrow lifting and love giving experience this is [...]

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Prince Leka of Albania at Parmoor House in Bucks

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Toplica

News
On Thursday 24th June, about 130 people came to Parmoor House, Frieth near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire to mark the 70th anniversary of King Zog of Albania’s exile in Britain in June 1940.
History
King Zog had married the beautiful Hungarian Countess Geraldine in 1938 and they had a son Prince Leka in April 1939.  Two days [...]

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Tony Blair welcomed in Kosovo as a hero

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Toplica

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that NATO intervention in Kosovo was necessary and that the existence of an independent state of Kosovo is proof of that.“It would have been a terrible thing if the West had allowed the situation to continue unchecked,” Blair said in a addressing the Kosovo’s assembly members in [...]

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Thousands support of Kosovar Arigona Zogaj and her family in Vienna

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Toplica

Thousands of people take part in a rally at the Vienna Ballhausplatz, in Vienna, Austria on 01 July 2010, in support of Kosovar Arigona Zogaj and her family who are facing deportation from Austria back to Kosovo.
Media reports state that the Zogaj family lost their final appeal against a refusal to grant them asylum at [...]

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The Refugee Pupils’ Achievement Awards in Camden, London

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Toplica

“A Haverstock student Pellumb Ahmetaj, 17, whose family arrived in the UK from Kosovo in 1999, gained 11 GCSEs, including one A* and six As and is now studying five A-levels. Pellumb said he wants to study aerospace engineering at university.”

More than 100 refugee pupils from primary and secondary schools across Camden in London were [...]

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Italy drops Albanian man’s murder extradition request

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Toplica

“Italian authorities have dropped a bid to extradite a man for murder after admitting they had “got the wrong man”.” (BBC)

“Fingerprint analysis confirmed Mr Arapi did not murder Castillo Marcello. ” (BBC)“UKIP West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass says the ongoing nightmare endured by Edmond Arapi shows the European Arrest Warrant system is flawed and should [...]

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Alda Dizdari in Concert: Eastern Europe - A musical journey

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Toplica

Wigmore Hall, Friday 23 July 2010, 7.30 pm. Address: Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP. Book now: http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/alda-dizdari-violin-26019The Albanian born concert violinist Alda Dizdari makes her Debut at the Wigmore Hall together with the pianist Tom Blach in this exceptionally engaging programme reflecting a very personal journey. The works create a [...]

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‘unearthed’ an exhibition with prehistoric figurines from Albania and other countries

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Toplica

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, Tuesday 22 June – Sunday 29 August.

This exhibition brings together over 100 prehistoric ceramic figurines from Albania, Macedonia, Romania and Japan for the first time.

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New Albanian Kosovan group in Reading

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Toplica

The Reading Albanian Kosovan Community group which was set up around two months agon in Reading and now has 1,000 members was officially launched more than two weeks ago by the Kosova ambassador in UK, Dr Muhamet Hamiti.

Its members meet each week in Theale and on 23rd May they had an official launch party at [...]

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