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Albania’s Challenges in Waste Services
Albanian Daily News
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In recent years, municipalities across Albania have increasingly turned to public enterprises to deliver essential services, acknowledging their potential to support local development. These enterprises are entrusted with responsibilities ranging...
USAFE-AFAFRICA Command Surgeon strengthens medical partnerships in Serbia
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 1, 2025
Several high-ranking officials from U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa and the Ohio National Guard, participated in the Distinguished Visitor day at Exercise Platinum Wolf 25 in Bujanovac, Serbia, June 26, 2025. Hosted annually,...
Turkey urges Albania to halt Bektashi state plan
Gazeta Tema
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June 30, 2025
Turkey has formally requested that Albania abandon plans to establish a “Bektashi state” and stop the initiative proposed by Prime Minister Edi Rama to create a religious republic within Albanian territory. The demand was delivered by Turkish...
Albania emerges as Europe’s low-cost medical tourism magnet
Gazeta Tema
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June 22, 2025
Albania is drawing a new kind of visitor. Beyond beaches and bunkers, its clinics are filling with foreign patients seeking dental and cosmetic procedures at half the cost of Western Europe. Maurizio, 50, flew in from Italy after seeing his...
On Sale for One Euro: Will Albania’s Forests Go Private?
Green European Journal
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June 30, 2025
Albania’s modern history is characterised by dramatic political shake-ups, but one thing has remained constant through all the turbulence: the country’s lustrous forests are overwhelmingly public. This might, however, soon no longer be the case,...
Shpëtim Idrizi: Greece Must Engage in Dialogue with Albania to Resolve Historical Disputes
Albanian Daily News
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June 2025 marks the 81st anniversary of the genocide and ethnic cleansing committed against the Albanians of Chameria. It has been 81 years of injustice, silence, and unresolved pain. To honor this anniversary, the Patriotic Association “Chameria”...
Heat wave across the Med sparks health and fire warnings
The Manila Times
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June 28, 2025
PARIS, France — Southern European countries braced Friday for a punishing weekend heatwave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and beyond, prompting health warnings and fears of wildfires. The searing heat...
Albanian companies face “staffing crisis,” turn to foreign workers
Euronews Albania
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June 18, 2025
A shortage of workers has pushed Albanian companies to turn to foreign labor—led primarily by women from the Philippines. Whether in hotels, seaside restaurants, beauty centers, or private homes, their presence is becoming increasingly widespread....
Man charged over jewellery heist given suspended sentence for beating up inmate
Malta Today
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A man tied to Malta’s biggest jewellery heist has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended term for assaulting a fellow inmate. Begtash Muka, 33, an Albanian national already known to the Maltese courts for his involvement in a high-profile...
CCHF Case Detected in Greece; Health Authorities Issue Advisory
To Vima
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June 27, 2025
The National Public Health Organization of Greece (EODY) has confirmed a domestic case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in a village within the municipality of Elassona, in the regional unit of Larissa, Thessaly. The patient, a man over...
Amber heat health alert in force as temperatures to soar above 30C amid severe weather warnings in Europe
LBC
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28 June 2025, 08:38 | Updated: 28 June 2025, 08:44 The UKHSA alert covers London, the south east, south west and east of England. Picture: Alamy Temperatures are set to soar above 30C today as a second June heatwave grips the UK. Listen to this...
Heatwave across the Mediterranean sparks health and fire warnings
Inquirer
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June 28, 2025
PARIS, France – Southern European countries braced Friday for a punishing weekend heatwave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and beyond, prompting health warnings for residents and tourists plus fears of...
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...
Mediterranean heatwave sparks health, fire warnings, Malta not spared
Times of Malta
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June 27, 2025
Southern European countries braced Friday for a punishing weekend heatwave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40 degrees Celsius and beyond, prompting health warnings for residents and tourists plus fears of wildfires. Malta is forecast to...
Heatwave Across The Med Sparks Health And Fire Warnings
International Business Times
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June 27, 2025
Southern European countries braced Friday for a punishing weekend heatwave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and beyond, prompting health warnings for residents and tourists plus fears of wildfires. The...
Brits brace for 36C heatwave as urgent health warnings issued across England
Radio X
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27 June 2025, 17:04 36C temperatures are set hit the UK next week. Picture: Met Office, Alamy A 36C heatwave is set to descend on Britain over the weekend, bringing with it a “rise in deaths” ahead of what could be the hottest June day on record....
Trakia University Conducts Free Medical Exams in Golemo Ostreni, Albania, until June 28
Bulgarian News Agency
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The Medical College at the Trakia University in Stara Zagora will conduct free medical examinations in the village of Golemo Ostreni in the Golloborde Region in Albania from June 26 to 28. The multidisciplinary examinations will have medical...
U.S. Embassy in Tirana Trains Albanian Prosecutors on Digital Security
Euronews Albania
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Embassy in Tirana hosted Albanian prosecutors for a two-day training on the investigation and prosecution of digital evidence, organized under the Diplomatic Security Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. On this occasion, the U.S. Embassy...
Malhama and Albanian Tactical Groups Train New Syrian Army and Special Forces
The Jamestown Foundation
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Executive Summary: Foreign-led jihadist groups Malhama Tactical and Albanian Tactical are now training Syria’s newly formed army and special forces under the post-Assad government. These groups, once aligned with Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām (HTS) and...
Tensions in Salerno: Italian builder kills 25-year-old Albanian during robbery
Euronews Albania
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June 25, 2025
The villa owner, a 60-year-old local construction entrepreneur, presented himself to the Prosecutor’s Office of Vallo della Lucania with his lawyer and revealed the location of the body. He is under investigation for murder and concealment of a...