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'Everything We Have Is Destroyed': Albania Mourns After Deadly Earthquake

The 6.4 magnitude temblor killed more than two dozen people and injured hundreds. Rescuers are racing to find survivors — and those who lived must now pick up the pieces of their former lives.
An aerial photo depicts a makeshift camp in Thumane, northwest of Albania's capital, Tirana. The country was in national mourning Wednesday as emergency workers continued to pull bodies from the ruins of buildings gutted by the earthquake.

Across Albania, survivors of are combing the wreckage of homes and buildings and seeking signs of life in the rubble. Amid the flotsam of cratered neighborhoods and improvised tent cities, Albanians are observing a Wednesday for those they

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