The Albanian weightlifter Erkand Qerimaj has reacted concerning the anti-doping test results as the outcome was positive. The decision of the World Federation Appeal decision should be waited calmly, because in the first test he was negative, he said.
“In the first test I was negative. In the second test I was positive surprisingly after the contest. It is the appeal which will be decisive and I wait calmly”.
Clinician Luan Nikollari said in a press conference that the transport to Austria of the two students has been carried out successfully. According to Nikollari, Florije Peci and Eriselda Gubere will undergo first analyses in Vienna. Nikollari added that they are still in severe conditions but under the care of specialized medical staff. Students injured in the tragic accident in Himara are being treated at the Military Hospital are to leave the hospital next week. The fact was confirmed by Nikollari who revealed that the health of the girls is improved. Six of them was hospitalized in Himara and have left the hospital. Kaltra Pollozhani is in the surgery room at the Military Hospital under the supervision of the medical staff.
By Josh Lowensohn It still may be a down economy for many, but the veritable cottage industry for jockeying when Apple will enter the TV business is booming. The latest to weigh in on the topic is Forrester analyst James McQuivey with a suggestion that Apple ought to offer a device that sounds to me like something between a giant iPad, and Microsoft's latest version of its Surface computer.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has stated that soccer can be a "tragedy" when a match is decided by a penalty shoot-out, goal.com reports. Blatter believes that soccer's true nature is lost when a match is decided by penalties, and hinted that other options will be explored in the future.
"Football can be a tragedy when you go to penalty kicks," Blatter said according to the BBC. "Football should not go to one on one, when it goes to penalty kicks football loses its essence.
A dead body was found on Friday by the Tirana Police alongside the Tirana-Durresi free way. Sources at the police say that the dead body was thrown into the canal near Vora and is supposed to have passed away in the early hours of Friday. The victim is supposed to be Rizvan Peposhi. The police first suspected that the victim died after being crashed by a car which left the spot immediately.
A bomb exploded some 300 meters off the Police Directorate in Durresi at the neighborhood 7 of the city. The incident occurred early morning on Friday while the explosive was set on the sidewalk, very close to commercial subjects. The blast claimed no one but there were significant material damages to the business there. The police have already taken in several persons to testify.
A violent scuffle erupted in Ukraine's parliament on Thursday evening over a bill that would allow the use of the Russian language in courts, hospitals and other institutions in the Russian-speaking regions of the country. The fight broke out between members of the pro-Western opposition who want to take Ukraine out of Russia's shadow and lawmakers from President Viktor Yanukovych's party, which bases its support in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east.
An accident at the Muriqani border crossing near the Albania – Montenegro border has claimed the life of 50 year old man from Shkodra Gjin Kakia as the latter crashed with his car against the vehicle of a construction company as it was operating in the road axis. Kakia was driving his way to Montenegro. The investigation group started the investigation to foil the incident.
A 28 year old man has been arrested by the Berati Police after being wanted by the Italian authorities for a double murder. Aleksander Agaci was internationally wanted by Interpole Rome and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Scotland Yard says it has seized a record number of counterfeit coins in raids on three properties outside of London. The police force says that it recovered more than 4 million pounds ($6.3 million) worth of fake coinage from a freight container during Wednesday's swoop. In a statement released Thursday, the force said that three men, ages 52, 43 and 27, had been arrested in connection with the find. It did not name the men. The statement says the seizure is thought to be the biggest-ever recovery of bogus coins in Britain. Police are still hunting for the press that made the counterfeit currency.
Sergio Aguero has insisted that he has no plans to leave Manchester City in the summer, and stated his belief that the club will soon be on par with La Liga duo Real Madrid and Barcelona. The Argentina international enjoyed a dream debut season at City, helping the club to its first Premier League title, a first league triumph since 1968, with 23 goals. His performances have not gone unnoticed in Europe, with Madrid understood to be weighing up a move, but Aguero has committed his future to City, saying that the club will be part of the European elite.
The Vlora Police received on Thursday a phone call by a citizen informing them that a bomb was planted in the Taiwan bar in Tirana. The authorities took measures and the specialized TNT forces went to the place to evacuate the customers. After the check up control the police forces reported it was a false alarm. The police have identified and arrested the person who made the phone call.
The 15 members of the Katuci family of the so called Yellow House in Small Gurre, of Mat have gone on strike. They have defied the control of their house by the EULEX Task Force officers to investigate concerning the accusations of the former senator Dick Marty on alleged organ trafficking. “We oppose accusations of his report as baseless”, said they.
She may seem shy in front of still photographers, but the same can't be said for Kristen Stewart when movie film is rolling. At least not when it comes to her latest endeavor, On the Road. The drama, based on a classic Jack Kerouac novel, finds Stewart's Marylou topless at one point (as teased in this On the Road trailer), seated between costars Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund. Was the actress nervous about such a scene? Heck no. I "wanted to do it," she said today at a Cannes Film Festival press conference.
30 families have found themselves isolated in the village Perbreg of the Terthore commune in the district of Kukesi as a result of water level going up at the Fireza lake. The residents of Kovac neighborhood report that the water has reached a three meter level.
“A group was set up to verify the situation. Reporters say that this happens every year at the same period. As a commune, we do not have the means and ways to solve the problem to these citizens because the solution may be either the dislocation of the residents or the construction of an embankment at the dam”, said the chairman of the Terthore commune.
Goal.com quotes Manchester City and Italy striker Mario Balotelli as saying that Euro 2012 will provide him with the opportunity to show his talent, and prove he can keep his cool. The controversial forward is expected to lead the line for Italy in Poland and Ukraine as the Azzurri look to win their first Euro title since 1968.
"This could be the chance of a lifetime for me," Balotelli told reporters at a press conference. "I think my season was okay. I am young, this is when one can make mistakes.
The head of the Supreme Court Shpresa Becaj declared that the court encourages any citizen to address the justice bodies to find and guarantee the individual rights each time they encounter a case of fraud, respecting the work of the police and of the prosecution in carrying out the necessary acts in the identification of these elements. Becaj spoke after the arrest of Stavri Vaso accused of fraud. Vaso had served as a driver of the administration at the Supreme Court and was dismissed after the demand and insistence of chairman Becaj.
An accident has claimed the life of Gjin Katia from Gruda, Great Highlands, while driving his Fiat to Shkodra near Vladimir Village, a Montenegrin part. The road traffic has been blocked as a result as the police is investigating to foil the cause of the incident.
Jose Mourinho has signed a new four-year contract to remain as manager of Real Madrid until 2016. The Portuguese, 49, took over at Real in 2010 aords. nd guided his team to success in the Copa del Rey in his first campaign in charge. Mourinho won the Premier League twice with Chelsea and has won domestic and Champions League titles with both Porto and Inter Milan. Real went out of their domestic cup competition at the quarter-final stage this season, losing 4-3 on aggregate to Barcelona and lost on penalties in the Champions League semi-finals to defeated finalists Bayern Munich.
BY Scott Howard-Cooper The crowd stood in full roar the final 16 seconds as the Thunder crossed half court and dribbled out the remnants of Game 5, a celebration that was longer and maybe louder than anything that had gone on before Monday night, if that's possible.
Kevin Durant walked from the bench down the sideline to share a handshake with the defeated Lakers coach, Mike Brown, as time was still running out. Daequan Cook stopped on his way to the locker room to sign a ticket stub for a fan, an uncommon act of kindness the likes of which are common here.
The government risks "sleepwalking into another monopoly" in the way it is allocating funds for rural broadband, shadow business minister Chi Onwurah has warned. The Labour MP says she plans to tell the House of Lords communications select committee on Tuesday that the current system is "skewed towards BT". Rival Virgin Media has already accused the government of subsidising BT. BT says that others are welcome to bid for funds.
Give Miley Cyrus credit: she isn't just walking the walk. This young artist is talking the talk. Following Miley's VERY revealing outfit at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, more excerpts from her appearance on Lifetime's The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet have leaked - and they tout the awesomeness and the importance of sexual intercourse.
"Girls who base how much they're worth on the sexual favors they can do for somebody, that makes me really sad," Cyrus says in an interview that airs Thursday. "Because sex is actually really beautiful."
The EP rapporteur for Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek said via a video address to the AAB&RIINVEST University students that Kosovo will soon receive the visa liberalization road map. Lunacek added that the EP is committed to receive all the west Balkan countries in the EU. According to her, the roadmap will be delivered authorities during the spring of this very year.
Napoli lifted Coppa Italia for the fourth time in the club's history after a deserved 2-0 victory over Italian champions Juventus at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. After a tightly-contested first half, the Partenopei hit the Bianconeri with strikes by Edinson Cavani and Marek Hamsik after the break as Walter Mazzarri's men extinguished the Old Lady's hopes of a double on Alessandro Del Piero's farewell game for the Turin giants.
Will Smith experienced his own unusual situation during a movie premiere press line this week. The actor was in Moscow on behalf of Men in Black III when a reporter from the Ukraine embraced the star with a hug... and then tried to follow that up with a kiss on the lips.
"He's lucky I didn't sucker punch him," Smith is heard telling someone else soon afterward, though he responds very well from the saliva-based attack and is quickly seen below laughing about it.
By Marguerite Reardon Broadband data caps were a hot topic this week as Comcast and Verizon Wireless separately talked up upcoming changes to their policies. So how will these data cap tweaks affect consumers?
In short, Comcast's move, which increases its existing cap from 250GB to 300GB and now imposes an overage fee for those who exceed the cap, is likely a positive for its subscribers. Even the consumer advocates who typically hate the idea of data caps applauded the company for improving the policy. Meanwhile, Verizon's new plan, which will force existing subscribers "grandfathered" on its unlimited data plan into a tiered shared-data plan, will likely eventually lead to higher prices for wireless consumers.
Juventus legendary goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has said on Saturday to Italian media that his future will always be with the Old Lady. "My future will always be painted in black and white," he told Radio Deejay. "We still have important goals to fight for after all the Scudetti we have won over the years.
The 34-year-old custodian has been a vital part of Juve's setup since joining the club from Parma in 2001 in a deal worth 54 million euros.
Greece confirmed on Saturday that it would a hold a repeat general election on June 17, after party leaders failed to form a coalition government following an inconclusive election.
“We are calling a general election for June 17. The new parliament will convene on June 28, Thursday,” said a statement from the parliament’s press office.
The statement said President Karolos Papoulias had dissolved the parliament elected on May 6, two days after it was convened. The date of the new election was released last week but was not official until Papoulias issued Saturday’s decree.
One 16-year-old girl died Saturday after a powerful bomb blast outside their school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, with another seven injured, one critically. School officials said the blast, which went off as the students were arriving for class at the all-girls Francesca Morvillo Falcone vocational school, knocked several of them to the ground. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast caused by gas canisters hidden in a container or backpacks placed near a wall of the school grounds, according to initial indications.
Monchengladbach has completed the signing of Granit Xhaka from Basel, the Bundesliga club revealed on its official website. The 19-year-old had been closely linked with Lucien Favre's side in recent weeks, and on Friday put pen to paper on a five-year contract that will expire in 2017. "We competed with a number of top European clubs in our efforts to sign Granit Xhaka, and are happy that we managed to get him to Borussia," Gladbach sporting director Max Eberl said.
The Switzerland senator who accused the KLA leaders of illegal organ transplants of POWs from 1998-1999 has arrived in Kosovo. Marty, however, came as a witness to another case, the Medicus scandal, allegedly dealing with transplants carried out after the war in Kosovo. A session will be held in court on Friday although Marty will not be testifying.
UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he believes al Qaeda committed a major bomb attack in Damascus that left dozens dead, and that up to 10,000 people have now been killed in Syria. Ban said President Bashar al-Assad has still not implemented a peace plan agreed with UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
“Very alarmingly and surprisingly, a few days ago, there was a huge serious massive terrorist attack. I believe that there must be al Qaeda behind it. This has created again very serious problems,” Ban said at a youth event at the UN headquarters.
The Kosovo deputy PM Hajredin Kuci denied the statements made by the Syrian President Bashar al Assad on training camps of Syrian rebels in Kosovo.
In the news published in a Kosovo media, Kuci said that this is a false statement. As the Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affaris Enver Hoxhaj said, Kosovo supports the democratic movements in all the world, but Kosovo is not an oasis where people can train, whatever their scope”.
The head of Syria’s most-recognized opposition bloc, Burhan Ghalioun, has announced that he is stepping down as leader of the Syrian National Council (SNC) after mounting criticism of his leadership.
“I am announcing my resignation as head of the Council. I call on the Syrian opposition to break the cycle of conflicts and preserve unity,” Ghalioun told Al Arabiya.
Edy Reja has announced that he has parted company with Lazio, in spite of the fact that club president Claudio Lotito was desperate for him to continue as coach. The 66-year-old Italian twice tendered his resignation during the Serie A season but it was rejected by the Biancocelesti board on both occasions. However, Reja has explained that he would not take no for an answer this time around.
"My adventure at Lazio ends here," he told Cittaceleste.it. "President Lotito gave me his support and asked me to stay on. Even after my refusal, he invited me to reconsider and take a week to reflect. But I had already made my decision.", goal.com reports.
The European Union needs to create the post of an elected president to foster greater political unity, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said today as the bloc faces deep economic and political problems.Mr Schaeuble has proposed a mechanism for using the European parliament elections to choose the president of the European Commission.
"Europe must have a face," Mr Schaeuble said in the western German city of Aachen as he accepted this year's Charlemagne Prize, one of Europe's most prestigious awards given for promoting European causes.
The EULEX court has exonerated the Director General of Kosovo Custom House Huruglica and the Director of the Legal Department Rufuna accused of allowing additional imports of tobacco in Kosovo to cross the legal import limits for 2008.
“The decision to allow additional imports of tobacco was allegedly influenced by political factors contrary to any legal logic. That allowed the companies to import tobacco on a lower level of excise thus inflicting financial losses amounting to 5.000.00 Euros to the budget of Kosovo. The court exonerated Huruglica and Rafuna after none of the accused was proved to have committed the act they were chard with”, EULEX communique stated. The EULEX prosecutor from the Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo has announced he will file a complaint on the matter.
Russell Brand and Katy Perry might as well be teaching Celebrity Breakups 101. Proving that a split doesn't have to be bitter or contentious just because it's painful, the comedian opened up to Ellen DeGeneres about his recent divorce and had only positive things to say about former wife Katy Perry.
"I still love her as a human being," he said. "But, sometimes when you're in a relationship I suppose it doesn't work out, does it? You can't absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. But that doesn't mean I regret it or anything."
Turkey's military says its warplanes chased an Israeli aircraft from airspace off territorially disputed Cyprus, where Turkey is seeking seabed deposits of oil and gas. The incident is said to have happened on Monday. Israeli officials did not comment immediately on Turkey's claim that an Israeli plane was chased from Cypriot airspace by Turkish fighters on Monday.
France’s new left-wing government started work on Thursday with pledges to combat excessive austerity but better manage public finances, marking the debut with a 30% cut in pay for President François Hollande and all ministers. The sizeable wage reduction was endorsed at a first meeting of the 34-minister team, a day after Germany’s government awarded rises to its ministers and Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose pay will overtake Hollande’s. Pierre Moscovici, France’s newly-appointed finance minister, set the tone, reiterating Hollande’s demand Berlin and other euro zone capitals rework a fiscal pact agreed in March, to add pro-growth measures alongside commitments to deficit reduction.
Spain's Queen Sofia has cancelled a trip to London on Friday to attend Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebration lunch due to tensions with Britain over the disputed territory of Gibraltar.
"The government considers it is hardly adequate that in the current circumstances, Queen Sofia take part in Queen Elizabeth's jubilee," a spokesman for the royal household said Wednesday.
In a vistit to Tetovo, the Deputy PM of Kosovo, Hajerdin Kuci declared that Kosovo is interested that Macedonia be a stable state. “Kosovo is interested that the Republic of Macedonia is a functional, democratic state which respects the rights of its citizens, the Ohrid agreement and its international obligations”, said Kuci.
As regards the conflicts, no one should add fuel to fire. On the contrary, we must work together in institutional and democratic ways so that they are solved, said Kuci commenting on the tensions arising after the murder of the five young Macedonians, for which 20 Albanians were taken in considered as radical Islamists.
Kim Kardashian doesn't care WHAT the Federal Trade Commission says ... she says Skechers worked for her, and THAT'S why she became the company's pitch person. Kim made a 1-year deal with the company, which touted Shape-Ups as a shoe that promotes toning and weight loss. The FTC now says the claims are bogus ... that there's no proof the shoes do squat. But Kim is telling friends and family ... when she signed the original deal, she was a habitual Shape-Ups user and it toned the back of her legs and her considerable ass.
By Rafe Needleman Google has long sought to index the world's information -- and it's now taking things a step farther with an effort to create "a database of everything in the world." And it's bringing this effort to your search results pages.
The new Knowledge Graph project, rolling out to English-language Google Search users over the next few days, provides more data snippets alongside its query results than the search engine currently provides. The results are based on Google's new database of 500 million people, places, and things, says Jack Manzel, Product Management Director of Search at Google.
By Jason Hiner Vic Gundotra has been running engineering teams at Google since 2006 but he's never been more bullish about what Google is building than he is today and there's one simple reason: Design.
"We care more about design than we ever have in our history," Gundotra said the day after his pet project, Google+, launched a groundbreaking new redesign for its iPhone app.
Ryan Seacrest has snagged Ellen DeGeneres' amazing Beverly Hills estate, which was listed for a cool $49 million, and we've learned he paid close to the asking price. Seacrest, who is reportedly worth $125 mililon and rakes in $45 million a year (these reports are sometimes off -- he probably makes more) ... will be the proud owner of the 9,200 square foot main house, 3 guest houses, and a couple of cement ponds. The estate sits on 2.87 acres -- for Bev Hills, that's huge. It basically covers an entire block.
In a meeting with the Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark on European Affairs Nicolai Wammen the Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci spoke about the process Kosovo integration into the EU, and on the latest developments in the region. In his declaration, Thaci said Kosovo will all its obligations in a record deadline so that the close in becomes as real as it can get. Dutch Minister Wammen on the other hand said that there is no doubt that the future of Kosovo is in the European Union.
In an interview given to Europe based media, the Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen declared that the solution of Macedonia’s name issue is still a condition for NATO membership to the country. Rasmussen said that there is no change of opinion that the change will come after a plausible solution found by Athens and Skopje.
“In 2008 there was a willingness to start the preliminary talks provided that Greece and Macedonia find a plausible solution to the problem of the name. Unfortunately there has been no improvement in this direction and the decision we made four years ago is still valid”, Rasmussen is quoted as saying.
The Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci declared that the dynamics of Prishtina and Brussels do not converge and that the delays by Brussels are unjustifiable. According to Thaci, Kosovo has been belated for a century unjustly. “It is clear that Kosovo has a European future. The state of Kosovo is univocal in the political and ethnical aspect regarding the Euro-Atlantic vision. But the truth is that the dynamics of the two do not converge. Brussels delays are unjustifiable, Kosovo has already been belated a century unjustly. Kosovo has worked separately from EU forums and the EU has had a very slow pace”, said Thaci.
A group of Macedonians gathered at the government office protesting against the demonstrations in Skopje and other cities resided by Albanian communities in Macedonia. The young Macedonians chanted racist and offensive slogans against Albanians. After the incidents and recent developments, the fragile situation of inter ethnic relations in Macedonia seems to have been deteriorated even more.
