HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — An archaeological site that might shed more light on New Mexico’s ancient history has been discovered recently within the boundaries of Holloman Air Force Base.
“Albania’s EU integration process is a strategic national objective, and a whole-of-society project, which is strongly supported by Albania’s citizens,” said EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, also calling “for a constructive and inclusive political dialogue as all of Albania’s political parties and all sectors of society ... have a role to play in further advancing the country’s EU accession process.”The Central Election Commission, the electoral executive, has said that by law the final results come out 48 hours after voting ends — in other words, later Tuesday. The results may be delayed following a request of the opposition not to consider some 53,000 ballots mailed from the diaspora in neighboring Greece, claiming they were manipulated.
For the first time, those in the diaspora could cast postal votes. About 195,000 mailed in their votes.Eligible voters in Albania and abroad voted to elect 140 lawmakers for a four-year mandate in the Balkan nation. Because of mass emigration, the country of 2.4 million people has a total of nearly 3.7 million eligible voters.Diaspora votes from Greece may have moved seats in three or four areas in favor of the left-wing Socialists. The opposition claims they were manipulated by Socialist supporters. The postal company said it has confirmation signatures of all the voters in Greece.
It is expected that Rama will give a speech to his supporters, likely on Wednesday.Rama’s Socialist Party says it can
in five years, which is an ambitious pledge, while battling the Democrats, who argue that Albania isn’t ready for EU membership.
On Friday, the opposition will hold a protest against the alleged election manipulation. The protest will coincide with a European Political Community summit being held in Tirana.The museum said glass windows were for the upper echelons of society and religious use, as was the case in the rest of Europe. Dengsø Jessen said there may have been glass windows in the Vikings’ vast hall buildings. They were not large, transparent windows as we know them today, but probably smaller windows, possibly composed of flat pane glass in different shades of green and brown. The idea was not to be able to look out, but to create a colorful inflow of light into the building.
The museum said “it is most likely that the Vikings acquired (the glass) through trade.” The Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest and trading throughout Europe. They also reached North America.“In fact, we are talking about a cultivated Viking elite with royal power that equaled that, for example, of Charlemagne, king of the Franks. This is something that is often omitted in the simplistic Hollywood portraits of Vikings,” Dengsø Jessen said.
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Two nearly 2,000-year-old tombs with magnificent wall paintings will be open to the public for the first time in southern Israel after a painstaking conservation process, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday.British archaeologists first discovered the sand-filled tombs in the 1930s, awed by the colorful paintings on the wall depicting vibrant grape vines twining their way around birds, animals, and mythological characters.