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Tirana Examiner Security Affairs Desk A message thread circulating in a University of Tirana law faculty student group, “Njoftime FDUT,” contained step by step instructions for building an improvised incendiary device, followed by explicit messages instructing protesters to carry them. The Security Desk has reviewed the screenshot. We are not reproducing the construction text, …
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Tirana Examiner Sali Berisha’s full endorsement of the Kushner-linked coastal investment removes the last partisan obstacle to a development model neither major party will now contest. The fight has not ended. It has moved to where votes cannot reach it. On Wednesday, before his parliamentary group, Sali Berisha settled the question of where Albania’s …
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The Newsroom Albania’s Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organised Crime has placed under preventive seizure the 195 million dollars paid out for land at Zvërnec, holding the sums in the accounts of Artur Shehu and the other owners who agreed to sell, after first releasing the account of the company controlled by the Qatari …
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A preventive sequestration order against Albania Land Development, the company holding the coastal land for the resort tied to Jared Kushner and his Qatari partners, was placed on 29 May and lifted by the start of this week. The prosecution has confirmed neither step in public. The Newsroom Tirana. The Special Anti-Corruption and Organized …
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At a Palace of Congresses gathering, the prime minister praised the party’s grassroots organisers, recounted his own entry into the party, and drew a sharp line between the Socialists and the opposition over the jailed mayor of Tirana. Hundreds of Socialist Party members, among them serving and former senior officials, gathered at the Palace …
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Tirana Examiner Look at the placard first, because everything else follows from it. A man holds it above the crowd in Tirana. On it, the Prime Minister of Albania has been redrawn as a Haredi Jew: black hat, beard, sidelocks. A red sniper’s reticle sits on his face, centred between the eyes. Beside him a …
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Tirana Examiner On 1 June, hundreds of people marched in Tirana against the resort project at Zvërnec. They were protesting the violence of 30 May when private guards dragged a protester across the ground while police watched. Then, in front of the Prime Minister’s Office, some in the crowd chanted “Poshtë Izraeli.” Down with …
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Parliament spent the first of June arguing about Zvërnec as if the line ran between government and opposition. It did not. The plenary convened around a single coastal project and left three incompatible arguments lying on the floor. None of them belonged cleanly to a party. That is the fact the headlines will bury …
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A protester dragged across a cordoned beach forced the prime minister into his first full account of the Vlora resort. He gave it at length, and on his own terms. Edi Rama spoke about Zvërnec for the first time on Monday, and he did not speak briefly. Across more than an hour before the …
