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The World

Ex-Guantanamo detainee: “I am sure it will be closed this year”

Agence France-Presse

A Uighur resettled in Albania said other countries’ reluctance to take detainees explains the delay in Gitmo’s closure.

The World

What Albania has in common with Thailand

Agence France-Presse

Europe’s marijuana capital isn’t Amsterdam

Conflict

Migrants flee Greek xenophobia

Economics

Washington asks Albania to help destroy Syrian chemical weapons

Conflict

Critics target World Bank poverty projects

Politics

Watchdog groups question the bank’s new plan to give the private sector a central role.

Al Qaeda’s using social media to find new recruits in Europe

Politics

The extremist network’s affiliate in Syria, ISIS, is finding militants and spreading propaganda in the Balkans.

Albania has an Al Qaeda problem. And it’s starting to fight back

Conflict

The authorities have arrested eight people on charges of recruiting militants to fight in Syria.