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Report: Kosovan Leader Involved in Organ, Drug Trafficking
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been named in a Council of Europe report as the former "boss" of a "mafia-like" criminal network that trafficked heroin, weapons and organs extracted from Serb captives. The document also says that the U.S. and other Western nations were aware of Thaci's alleged crimes but still backed his rise to power The report is the culmination of a two-year investigation by Swiss senator and former prosecutor Dick Marty, who interviewed numerous witnesses too terrified to publicly testify against political figures and former members of the Kosovo ...
Italy Plans to Denude Forest to Fight Prostitution
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 17) -- An Italian region struggling with policing the sex trade along a heavily wooded road has come up with a novel solution: Just chop down the forest. According to the Guardian newspaper, the regional government of Abruzzo in central Italy has tried 24-hour patrols, raids and cameras to curb the rampant sex trade on the Bonifica del Tronto road -- all to no effect. Finally, Angelo di Paolo, the regional government's notoriously decisive public works chief, decided that fighting the forest would be much easier then fighting the sex trade. He declared that all the vegetation on or ...
Beleaguered Kosovo Cheers Hillary Clinton
By Justin Vela - AOL News
PRISTINA, Kosovo (Oct. 13) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was welcomed today in Kosovo with a rapturous greeting very different from the cooler response she received in ethnically divided Bosnia and largely anti-American Serbia, the two other stops on her Balkan tour. Thousands of cheering Kosovo Albanians, many of them waving American flags, met her in the capital, Pristina, where she stopped to eye the 12-foot-tall bronze statue of her husband on Bill Clinton Boulevard. "I'm so glad to be back after 10 years; it's wonderful," Clinton said in front of the statue. The ...
Mother Teresa's 100th Birthday, as Celebrated by the World
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- Today, people from around the world gathered to celebrate the Mother Teresa's 100th birthday and recognize her life's work. Although she passed away in 1997, Mother Teresa's reputation as the "saint of the gutter" has continued to inspire many to follow in her footsteps of goodwill. "Her life and work continue to be an inspiration for the young and the old, the rich and the poor, from all walks of life, religions and nations," said Sister Mary Prema, the nun who currently runs the Missionaries of Charity. Here is a Surge Desk compendium of the many ways the globe is remembering ...
Top Albanian Aide Arrested in NYC Crime Ring Bust
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Aug. 24) -- A senior aide to the deputy prime minister of Albania has been arrested on charges of murder and racketeering, officials said today. Prosecutors in New York say the aide, 27-year-old Almir Rrapo of Albania, is a senior member of the Krasniqi crew, an international crime organization engaged in murder, kidnapping, narcotics trafficking and other illegal activities in Albania and the U.S. The group has operated in New York, Connecticut and Michigan. In the 37-page indictment, officials said Rrapo, also known as "Miri," participated in the 2005 murder of a man in Queens. He is also ...
Can't Spell NATO Without NO: Obama's Troop Request Denied
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyHuffPo reports that the US' NATO allies have spurned a request from President Obama for more troops in Afghanistan:STRASBOURG, France - President Barack Obama hailed "strong and unanimous support" from NATO allies on Saturday for his stepped-up anti-terror strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and welcomed their "down payment" promises of 5,000 fresh forces. The allies rebuffed U.S. appeals for more combat forces to join the war, but the backing Obama did gain at a European summit allowed him to claim an early victory on the world's foreign policy stage.The President downplayed this aspect of ...
U.S. Embassy Arms Cover Up?
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyRep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif) thinks the U.S. embassy in Albania may have helped an indicted weapons dealer hide the Chinese origin of ammunition sent to Afghanistan, and that the embassy tried to keep information about the ammunition from Congress.Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying: "The Oversight Committee has received information that the U.S. ambassador to Albania held a late-night meeting with the Albanian Defense Minister at which the ambassador approved removing evidence of the ...
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