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Dibra Municipality, in Albania's impoverished north, has a history of manipulated elections. The polls due on May 14 are no different, as the government throws everything behind its candidate.

10,000 pizza restaurants in 2000 US cities receive their orders via a call center located in the Republic of Macedonia.
300 employees of Slice, whose offices are located in Debar and Ohrid, serve between 10,000 and 20,000 US customers a day.

Four officials of the Municipality of Dibra in northern Albania were sent to hospital on Wednesday after suffering injuries at the hand of officials from their junior political allies in the PDIU, police reported.

Xhelili was arrested on Monday night after being shown on a local television station last week asking for sex from a 20-year-old woman who had recently been employed by the municipality.

The Albanian government is proposing to pass a special law to allow it to award a concessionary contract to the "China State Construction Company" to help build a highway to Macedonia.

Albanian police said they had arrested two members of a gang who robbed a jewel store in a Tirana mall at the height of the Christmas season last year dressed as Santa Clauses.

The robbers entered the mall dancing and singing, with their guns hidden, but once inside the store they took the weapons out and pointed them at the shopkeeper.