RSS Feeds  Albanian voters urged to remember 'ties to world'
Saturday - 6/22/2013, 1:49pm  ET  Trash bins in capital Tirana
Saturday, June 22, 2013, are filled with posters, banners and
other materials used by the political parties during the month-
long electoral campaign. Political campaigning stops in Albania
Saturday, a day before parliamentary elections which are
considered a crucial test for its ambitions for closer ties and
eventual membership in the European Union. (AP Photo/Hektor
Pustina)  Associated Press  TIRANA, Albania (AP) -- Albania's
president on Saturday warned voters to remember the country's
"ties to the world" during parliamentary elections considered a
crucial test of the impoverished nation's ability to hold fair
elections.  Conservative Prime Minister Sali Berisha is seeking
a third term but faces a strong challenge from Socialist leader
Edi Rama in Sunday's vote. Both have ambitions of closer ties
and eventual membership in the European Union, which is pressing
for broad reforms and a