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I read that the police lost 8 killed and 37 wounded in a 28 hour operation and that 14 militants were killed plus over 30 captured. Allegedly a band of militants had entered from Kosovo. They were experienced and had participated in combat in the Middle East.

Edit to add: The militant leaders were from Kosovo, while most of the militants were citizens of FYROM.

 

What is not clear to me is what their objective was. Kumanovo apparently isn't even Albanian majority.

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Who knows, maybe they expected to initiate Allied Force part duex. Hey it worked the first time

 

30+ dead due to gunfire in Europe in a single day, surely the BBC will be on top of it.

 

Nope, I just checked.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32679290

They have the story here http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32680904

ETA: They are however definitely slow in covering the events. It seems that this short article is the only one related to the clashes. Meanwhile in.gr (which is the home page on my browser) has put 5 articles since yesterday.

 

 

Meanwhile, based on what I read in Greek media Gruevsky spoke and said that the objective of the militants was to destabilize the country by attacking public institutions, police stations etc, and that some of the militants are connected to the 40-strong group that attacked a police station in a village near the border a couple of weeks ago. What I get from this is that there are several dozens of militants active.

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Supposedly random volunteers from Bulgaria and Serbia are getting self-organized to go fight the Albanians...

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Today morning index.hu stated that this is for steaming off the demonstrations and uncontent with the government :huh: Now it is reworded, stating this about the border crossing incident only, which was not confirmed by the opposition.

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We havent heard a word about this on the UK Media....

Surprised. Not. After all Albanians as "peaceful, gentle minority". Exact words from few years ago.

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Who said that?

 

I don't see how it fits with the press reports here of violent Albanian gangsters.

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To be fair, by the time the scope became apparent, media here were pre-occupied with the Bremen state elections yesterday where the Social Democrats received a drubbing in their stronghold (earlier they were all about the 70th anniversary of the end of WW II, and Merkel's visit to Moscow yesterday where she called the occupation of Crimea "criminal and contrary to international law" while standing next to Putin was still second news item last night), and all this against the background of a new peak in the NSA affair over reports that the US side smuggled in search terms to spy on European governments and industry in their cooperation with German intelligence, plus the union of railway engineers holding the whole country hostage again in an unprecedented week-long strike aimed not so much at getting improvements for the engineers rather than competing with another railway union.

 

After Channel 1 evening news had done the Bremen exit polls and usual discussion round of party representatives, and covered Merkel in Moscow, NSA-BND and what the government might have known of it, and the end of the railroad strike, they only had time for sports and weather left in their 15 minutes. Channel 2 news, which has five more minutes, brought a rather comprehensive report on Macedonia. Rather similar for online news; Spiegel Online had a report on last night, but with the hasty online news cycle, it has vanished from their front page this morning. The eternal formula of proximity x severity = news relevance holds true, of course.

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Who said that?

 

I don't see how it fits with the press reports here of violent Albanian gangsters.

BBC World, when there was some shit on Kosovo few years ago.

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Well, don't take it as the standard view here, & remember that despite being state-owned, the BBC has editorial independence. It's certainly not the official view. The police will tell you Albanian gangs are heavily involved in people-smuggling, drugs, guns & prostitution, especially of women trafficked from Albania & Kosovo, & have gained their prominence largely by being more violent than others.

 

And that's reported in the press.

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To be fair, by the time the scope became apparent, media here were pre-occupied with the Bremen state elections yesterday where the Social Democrats received a drubbing in their stronghold (earlier they were all about the 70th anniversary of the end of WW II, and Merkel's visit to Moscow yesterday where she called the occupation of Crimea "criminal and contrary to international law" while standing next to Putin was still second news item last night), and all this against the background of a new peak in the NSA affair over reports that the US side smuggled in search terms to spy on European governments and industry in their cooperation with German intelligence, plus the union of railway engineers holding the whole country hostage again in an unprecedented week-long strike aimed not so much at getting improvements for the engineers rather than competing with another railway union.

 

After Channel 1 evening news had done the Bremen exit polls and usual discussion round of party representatives, and covered Merkel in Moscow, NSA-BND and what the government might have known of it, and the end of the railroad strike, they only had time for sports and weather left in their 15 minutes. Channel 2 news, which has five more minutes, brought a rather comprehensive report on Macedonia. Rather similar for online news; Spiegel Online had a report on last night, but with the hasty online news cycle, it has vanished from their front page this morning. The eternal formula of proximity x severity = news relevance holds true, of course.

 

They will have a second chance in the next round. Do not worry Greater Albania is coming.

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And that's reported in the press.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it is some conspiracy, just sheer press incompetence of Biblical proportions.

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Well as far as the UK any media, this doesnt take much in the way of effort. :D

Fixed. :)

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Well as far as the UK any media, this doesnt take much in the way of effort. :D

Fixed. :)

 

Isn't that the truth. :(

 

Charles

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And that's reported in the press.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it is some conspiracy, just sheer press incompetence of Biblical proportions.

 

 

i.e. SOP.

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As for newsies... Our news services reported on it, but...

 

But spent far more time on the case of a Czech libertarian trying to create his own country on the border between Serbia and Croatia (IIRC Serbia acknowledges border as through middle of Danube and Croatia as a hypothetical straight line, so there are bits that according to Serbian rule belong to Croatia and according to Croatian rule to Serbia). He used one such river meander to establish his "Liberland". Sigh...

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As for newsies... Our news services reported on it, but...

 

But spent far more time on the case of a Czech libertarian trying to create his own country on the border between Serbia and Croatia (IIRC Serbia acknowledges border as through middle of Danube and Croatia as a hypothetical straight line, so there are bits that according to Serbian rule belong to Croatia and according to Croatian rule to Serbia). He used one such river meander to establish his "Liberland". Sigh...

Did it work?

There is similar area between Sudan and Egypt. It's pretty substantial too, but as it's surrounded by both countries, it looks like no other country is able to claim it.

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Well it is still ion being worked, but tbh the guy seems a bit delusional :D i guess the only effect will be Serbia and Croatia finally settling on a common definiton of border. Many countries have such bits of land (heck, just look at recent transfer of some Czech clay to Poland).

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Last thing I heard he got arrested by Croats, then released.

OTOH, that piece of real estate was army range in '50/60s.

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Kosovo, funeral of some of terrorist from Macedonia.

Nothing to see here, move along.

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Romania PM Ponta resigns over Bucharest nightclub fire

8 minutes ago
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has resigned after some 20,000 people took to the streets to protest over a nightclub fire that killed 32 people.
Friday night's blaze in Bucharest started when a band performing at the club set off fireworks inside.
Demonstrators called for Mr Ponta to step down, complaining of government corruption and poor safety supervision.
"I'm handing in my mandate, I'm resigning, and implicitly my government too," Mr Ponta said in a statement.
"I hope the government's resignation will satisfy the people who came out in the streets," he added.
Ponta under fire
In September, Mr Ponta became the first sitting Romanian prime minister to go on trial charged with corruption. He faces allegations of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.
He denies the charges and has accused prosecutors of being "totally unprofessional".
He was one of three people who resigned under pressure from the protesters. They also singled out the mayor of the Bucharest district, where the nightclub fire occurred, and the country's interior minister.
The protesters chanted "shame on you" and "assassins", and carried banners reading "corruption kills".
[...]

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34720183

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