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The Rapid Downfall of Albania’s Most-feared Drug Gang
Albanian Daily News
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The Cela-Çopja clan was one of Europe’s most powerful crime syndicates whose decisions dictated the price of cocaine across the continent. Masterminded by its ringleaders Franc Çopja, 33, and Ervis Cela, 41, the Albanian gang smuggled billions of...
UAE rescue team tackling wildfires in Albania for sixth day
The National News
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A rescue team from the UAE remains in Albania where it is helping attempts to extinguish wildfires that have forced residents from their homes and caused widespread damage. The team continues to provide support to tackle the fires after an...
How to Banish Anger Forever, According to Philosophy
Psychology Today
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After his brother Novatus asked him “how anger may be soothed,” the Stoic philosopher Seneca penned his famous treatise, On Anger (c. 45 CE). Anger, says Seneca, is a bad habit that people tend to pick up from their parents. When a child who was...
Four dead as Spain hit by worst wildfires on record in 45C heatwave
The Independent
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August 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Albania turns to AI to beat corruption and join EU
Politico Europe
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August 12, 2025
“One day, we might even have a ministry run entirely by AI,” Rama said at a July press conference while discussing digitalization. “That way, there would be no nepotism or conflicts of interest,” he argued. Local developers could even work toward...
Albania Pavilion Explores the Intersections of Architecture, History, and Identity at the 2025 Venice Biennale
ArchDaily
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August 13, 2025
Albanian Pavilion, 2025 Venice Biennale. Image © Andrea Avezzù with Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or...
Ryanair invests $300 million for new base in Tirana from April 2026
Tornos News
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August 15, 2025
Ryanair, the fastest growing airline in Albania, announced on Thursday, August 14, 2025, the establishment of a new base at Tirana International Airport from April 2026, investing $300 million for the permanent parking of three Boeing 737-800...
UAE Rescue Team continues forest firefighting operations in Albania
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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August 14, 2025
Tirana [Albania], August 14 (ANI/ WAM): The UAE Rescue Team is continuing its efforts for the fourth consecutive day to extinguish multiple wildfires in various locations across the Republic of Albania, in close coordination with Albanian...
World News | UAE Rescue Team Continues Forest Firefighting Operations in Albania
Latestly
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August 14, 2025
Tirana [Albania], August 14 (ANI/ WAM): The UAE Rescue Team is continuing its efforts for the fourth consecutive day to extinguish multiple wildfires in various locations across the Republic of Albania, in close coordination with Albanian...
Albanians cheer corruption cleanup
Christian Science Monitor
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August 12, 2025
Strategically located on the Adriatic Sea, between Eastern and Western Europe, Albania is a small country. However, after the downfall of a repressive communist regime in the early 1990s, it gained an outsize reputation as a hub of organized crime...
Albania: Lift blockade on Focus Media Group and protect journalists’ rights
ARTICLE 19
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We, the SafeJournalists Network, partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Albanian media freedom organisations, express shared concern over the police blockade and subsequent events affecting Focus...
UAE Rescue Team continues Albania forest firefighting operations
Sharjah24
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The UAE Rescue Team is working tirelessly to combat the blazes, maintaining constant field monitoring to ensure the fires are fully contained and to prevent any flare-ups, despite facing challenges such as soaring temperatures. Operations began on...
Politico: Albania turns to AI to beat corruption and join EU
Gazeta Tema
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August 14, 2025
Besides generating weird AI baby versions of European leaders, Albania’s politicians themselves could soon be made of pixels and code. TIRANA, Albania — While the rest of Europe bickers over the safety and scope of artificial intelligence, Albania...
Albania: Urgent answers needed on Focus Media Group blockade and journalists’ right to work
European Federation of Journalists
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August 12, 2025
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined its partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), the SafeJournalists Network, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Albanian media freedom organisations, in expressing serious concern over...
UAE helicopters drop 400,000 litres of water on raging Albanian wildfires
The National News
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Helicopters sent by the UAE have dropped more than 400,000 litres of water on wildfires raging across Albania under a major relief mission. An Emirati emergency task force arrived in Albania on Monday – on the directives of President Sheikh...
Albania has made rapid progress on its path towards EU integration - Braze
The Baltic Times
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RIGA - On July 9, during a visit to Riga by Albania’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Igli Hasani, Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baiba Braze (New Unity), expressed her gratitude for Albania’s contribution to the security of the...
News digest: Fico welcomes ‘standardisation’ with Russia, opposition talks of betrayal
The Slovak Spectator
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August 18, 2025
Good evening. Here is the Monday, August 18 edition of Today in Slovakia - the main news of the day in a few minutes. Fico praises summit, opposition voices concern Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video...
Europe wildfires map: Spain deploys nearly 2,000 soldiers to tackle major blazes
The Independent
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August 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Albania: Ivanka Trump Buys Sazan Island for $1 Billion, but the Area Is Riddled with Unexploded Mines
Albanian Daily News
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According to The Guardian, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner , the daughter and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump , have spent over a billion dollars to purchase Sazan, a pristine Albanian island. The real challenge will be clearing the land of...
Albania’s Tiny Armenian Minority Survived 50 Years of Communism, But Now Disappearing
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
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August 10, 2025
But because the community was so small, intermarriage with non-Armenians was inevitable. So Armenians, who are predominantly Christian members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, generally married Albanian Christians — rarely Muslims or Jews. That...