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The Albanian government says the country's first post-communist prime minister is in hospital fighting for his life. Fatos Nano founded Albania's Socialist Party in 1991 and served three terms as prime minister. Nano, who's 70 years old, is in intensive care in a hospital in the capital, Tirana, where he's being treated for problems with his lungs. Albania's current Socialist Prime Minister, Edi Rama, issued a statement saying he was praying for Nano, the party's “historic leader.” Rama awarded Nano with one of the country's highest honors for his role in...

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Albania's first post-communist prime minister, Fatos Nano, was in a hospital and fighting for his life, the current prime minister’s office said Thursday. Nano, 70, has been in intensive care at a private hospital in the capital, Tirana, for the past week, being treated for problems with his lungs. Nano was the founder of the governing Socialist Party in 1991 after the breakup of the former communist party that ran Albania’s dictatorship after World War 2.

The Albanian government says the country's first post-communist prime minister is in hospital fighting for his life