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Hoxha

(Albanian ˈhodʒa)
n
(Biography) Enver (ˈemver). 1908–85, Albanian statesman: founded the Albanian Communist Party in 1941 and was its first secretary (1954–85)
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Police charged Fatjon Hazizi, 30, Elton Omuri, 24, Besnik Hoxha, 32, Arjan Harisis, 24, and Krenar Harisis, 31, with conspiracy to supply cannabis.
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Lorenc Hoxha had to be taken again to the Emergency Department of the RVI this week.
MP Chi > However, bosses at Newcastle Hospitals released a new statement yesterday, saying a medical centre in Albania was able to provide "effective care" for Mr Hoxha. A spokesperson for the trust added: "As a consequence of the prevailing public interest and concerns surrounding the unheralded presentation of a 27-year-old male resident of Albania to the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, on two separate occasions, it can be con-firmed that such acute and not so much emergency presentations have been the subject of comprehensive medical assessment.
The bunker was built by the late communist dictator Enver Hoxha near Tirana, the capital, in the 1970s to prepare for a possible nuclear attack by ''American imperialism or Soviet social-imperialism.'' Hoxha, whose regime built up to 700,000 bunkers of different sizes and tunnels all around the country, died in 1985.
He became a national institution in Albania by accident, during the brutal communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.
Gramos Hoxha Jnr wants to become Britain's first black prime minister - once he is old enough to vote.
Enver Hoxha (pronounced to rhyme with 'lodger') came from a comfortably off family, was sent to a French school in Albania and in 1930 won a state scholarship to the University of Montpellier in France.
MEET three-year-old Gramos Hoxha Jnr - the world's youngest Obama lookalike.