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Youth employment rises in Albania, jobless rate falls
Gazeta Tema
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June 28, 2025
Youth employment in Albania improved in the second quarter of 2025, according to new data from the national statistics institute INSTAT. Employment for individuals aged 15–29 rose by 0.9 percentage points compared to Q1 and by 1.4 points...
Cham genocide gets official day of remembrance in Albania
Gazeta Tema
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June 27, 2025
Albanian parliament has officially designated June 27 as Cham Genocide Remembrance Day, recognizing atrocities against the Cham Albanian minority during 1944–45. The move was followed by national events honoring an estimated 5,000 Cham Albanian...
New sports law passed despite Albania football body’s pushback
Gazeta Tema
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June 27, 2025
Albania’s parliament has approved amendments to the Sports Law enabling the establishment of a national Sports Arbitration Court, aiming to align the country with international standards in sports governance. With 71 votes in favor and 4...
'More people than ever' being detained at Dublin Airport in illegal immigration crackdown
Irish Mirror
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June 27, 2025
Immigration officials are now targeting foreign criminals trying to come and live in Ireland. They are taking a hard-line stance with asylum seekers who arrive here with no passports from Georgia and Albania - two countries now listed as safe...
Foreign nationals can seek immigration appeals if they had valid visas upon arriving in Canada: SCC
Canadian Lawyer
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One of the Immigration and Refugee Board’s appeals divisions has the authority to review an appeal by a woman with an expired permanent residency visa, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a split decision on Friday. Setting aside previous...
Berkeley Professor Killed in Greece; Ex-Wife Among Suspects
KFI AM 640 - California
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Przemyslaw Jeziorski, a 43-year-old marketing professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was shot and killed on July 4 in Athens, Greece. The incident occurred in the Agia Paraskevi district as Jeziorski was on his way to visit his...
Trump Island, Albania; DB Cooper revisited; and Alanis oughta know
The Guardian
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June 28, 2025
1. The 50 hottest books to read now A Guardian illustration of a flower made of books. Illustration: Nathalie Lees/The GuardianOur books team packed for the beach to compile their essential list of summer reading: from novels by Chimamanda Ngozi...
Home Office issues 13 word response after two Coventry men killed by Albanian 'in UK illegally'
Coventry Live
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June 27, 2025
Officials at the Home Office have issued a statement after two Coventry men were killed by an Albanian man who was 'in the UK illegally.' Emiljano Kasaj was sentenced to life imprisonment over the deaths of Leo Moran and Joel Carriedo. Albanian...
Supreme Court of Canada grants woman chance to appeal immigration decision
Lethbridge Herald
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June 27, 2025
By Canadian Press on June 27, 2025. OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says a woman from Albania should have another chance to argue her immigration case after being denied an appeal due to an expired visa. In March 2018, Dorinela Pepa came to...
Brussels’ tobacco ban risks fuelling illegal immigration
City A.M.
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June 28, 2025
Saturday 28 June 2025 4:41 am | Updated: Friday 27 June 2025 11:11 am Share Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Email Share on Email (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) A proposed EU...
Keir Starmer's Immigration Plan Shows UK Is 'In A Very Dark Place', Says Albanian PM
HuffPost UK
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June 26, 2025
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, welcomes British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he arrives at the European Political Community summit in Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania, on Friday, May 16, 2025. The UK announced last month that it was...
Armenian myth and media’s crusade against Azerbaijani culture
AzerNews
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June 27, 2025
An Azerbaijani proverb says, “If you have a toothache, get it removed; if you have a problematic neighbor, move to another neighborhood.” Unfortunately, this proverb cannot be applied to a country with a problematic neighbor like Armenia. It would...
TikTok access reportedly restored in Albania three months after ban
BNE Intellinews
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Albania has quietly lifted restrictions on TikTok, just over three months after the popular video-sharing app was banned by the government over concerns about harmful content targeting young users. The restoration of access to TikTok was not...
Nigel Farage skewers Albania’s Brexit-hating PM and demands ‘take all your criminals back’ after dig at Britain
GB News
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June 26, 2025
Nigel Farage has launched a scathing attack on Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, demanding he "take all your criminals back" after the socialist leader criticised post-Brexit Britain. Nigel responded to Rama's comments on GB News by highlighting...
Review: Albania’s 2025 Bread & Heart Festival
The Architects’ Journal
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June 26, 2025
There’s a transformation under way in Albania. With confidence and a clear political will, the country is building a new future. This incredible shift was presented at the inaugural Bread & Heart Festival over four days in June in a sweltering...
Third-country asylum plan shows UK is in ‘a very dark place’, says Albanian PM
The Guardian
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June 26, 2025
A UK plan to send refused asylum seekers to “return hubs” in third countries shows post-Brexit Britain is “in a very dark place”, Albania’s prime minister has said. In his first interview with the international media since leading his socialist...
UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is ‘in very dark place’, Albanian PM warns
The Independent
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June 26, 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...
The totalitarian logic of trans activists
Unherd
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June 25, 2025
This past Saturday in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Chase Strangio, the staff attorney who is co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project, faced a group of supporters to debrief the historic loss of the United States v. Skrmetti at the Supreme...
Three Albanians and a Moldovan woman are arrested in dawn raids targeting people smuggling ring 'who advertised illegal crossings on social media'
Daily Mail
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June 25, 2025
By FRANCINE WOLFISZ Published: 13:50 EDT, 25 June 2025 | Updated: 13:57 EDT, 25 June 2025 Four people have been arrested amid dawn raids targeting an alleged people smuggling gang said to have advertised illegal crossings from France on social...
Zagreb Ranked Among Top 3 Budget-Friendly Cities in Europe by Time Out
The Dubrovnik Times
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Zagreb has been named one of the most budget-friendly cities in Europe, securing third place on Time Out’s new list of affordable urban getaways. Only Tirana (Albania) and Sofia (Bulgaria) ranked higher, while Sarajevo also made the list at sixth...