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Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Albania: 6.4-magnitude earthquake; Durres



From Reuters

From CNN

From Daily Mail

From Telegraph


The earthquake was also felt in Corfu and Northern Greece


Updates:


Albania: Biggest earthquake in decades takes deadly toll, Albania has been hit by a powerful nighttime earthquake that has killed at least 22 people and injured hundreds more, DW.


Albania earthquake: Rescuers search into the night after deadly tremor, BBC


Greek foreign minister expresses solidarity in visit to quake-ravaged Durres, eKathimerini


Search ends for survivors of Albanian quake as death toll reaches 51, Euronews 


50 dead in Albania - Over 10,000 homeless following the earthquake, Enimerosi














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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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