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Albania

MP arrested on murder warrant

An Albanian lawmaker from the ruling coalition was arrested on Thursday on murder charges filed in Belgium, the latest twist in a political scandal involving allegations of contract killings, false testimony and police cover-ups. The MP, Mark Frroku, was already under house arrest on suspicion that he and another ruling party lawmaker had concocted murder accusations against the speaker of parliament, a coalition ally of the Socialist Party of Prime Minister Edi Rama.