American woman Amelia Butler bought a bargain home in the village of Latronico, in Italy’s Basilicata region, sight unseen.
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Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
During the war, Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic ordered the ethnic cleansing of the majority Albanians in Kosovo, burning villages and forcing some 700,000 Kosovo Albanians to seek refuge in neighboring Albania, which touched off NATO intervention.
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