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The Iute Credit branch on Rruga e Durrësit burned on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, a fifteen-minute walk from the EU Delegation. The Delegation found seven sentences for the police and none for the fire. Since May a rumour has said the Union’s missions would behave exactly like this. On Wednesday they did. Maringlen Cara …
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The Newsroom Article 47 of the Albanian Constitution guarantees the freedom of peaceful assembly, without arms. Article 11 of the European Convention protects the same thing, in the same words: peaceful. What follows is a list of acts recorded in Tirana on 13 and 14 October 2026 by the State Police and by the …
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By Maringlen Cara (Tirana) There is a point at which a protest stops being a protest. Tirana crossed it at three o’clock on Tuesday. The students came to the Ministry of Education at two, with banners about dormitories and rent. At three a line of young men in black masks moved to the front. …
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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar met Prime Minister Edi Rama, Foreign Minister Ferit Hoxha and Speaker Niko Peleshi. Hoxha raised Israel’s recognition of Kosovo and confirmed Albania’s contribution to the Gaza stabilisation force. Albania and Israel signed a General Cooperation Agreement in Tirana on Monday, widening their partnership across the economy, security, technology, health …
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A Serbian deputy prime minister has promised his voters a flag over Prizren. Tirana’s answer has to be read with the sentence Edi Rama put on the record in March: if Kosovo is touched, Albania is touched. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) In March, Edi Rama put a sentence on the record. “If Kosovo is …
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When violence came from the opposition, Tirana’s diplomats spoke within a day. When an anti-government crowd turned on a journalist for the opinions he expressed, the public statements stopped. By Albatros Rexhaj On Monday Bledi Mane was surrounded in central Tirana, called “Rama’s servant” [servil i Ramës] and hit with eggs and, by his …
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A message to SPAK, and to every embassy in Tirana reading what has already escaped from a defence investigation. Tirana Examiner Editorial Board On Friday the Special Prosecution, SPAK, searched Albania’s Ministry of Defence and took documents. It has issued no statement. By Saturday, News24 was reporting the offences said to be registered, details …
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Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke to the country from Tirana’s Mother Teresa airport on Sunday afternoon, minutes after landing from New York, where he had represented Albania at the UN General Assembly. The address followed the house arrest of Vlora Hyseni, the dismissed director of the State Intelligence Service (SHISH), whom SPAK is investigating for …
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In an address focused on artificial intelligence, the prime minister said a fabricated Israeli “takeover” narrative fed the Tirana mobilisation, announced an AI-based “digital mirror” to expose coordinated manipulation, and sided with the US president against restraint. NEW YORK / TIRANA – The Newsroom Prime Minister Edi Rama addressed the general debate of the …
