Albanian opposition lawmakers ran wild during a session on Thursday, setting off flares that filled the chamber with colored smoke and physically blocking the podium to demonstrate their solidarity with student protesters during a vote on a bank bill.
Rioters in Tirana, Albania, attempted to set various government buildings and luxury developments on fire in the capital on Tuesday.
Kamel Ghribi, the international investment executive behind one of Europe’s largest private healthcare networks, sees a “huge opportunity” to expand cooperation with the United States in medical technology, hospital development, and research as his organization pursues an ambitious international growth strategy through 2030.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a report this month on the Albanian corruption case entangling Jared Kushner’s resort project that was co-written by an editor at a newsroom funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a tie the paper did not disclose to readers.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama accused Iran of using disinformation to promote the “Flamingo Revolution” protest movement.
A large group of protesters brandishing cardboard flamingoes marched through the Albanian capital of Tirana for several nights this week, demonstrating against plans for a luxury resort by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Opposition lawmakers from the Democratic Party (DP) of Albania unleashed chaos in parliament on Thursday, lighting flares, throwing water bottles at Speaker Niko Peleshi as he tried to restore order, and scuffling with police.
An Albanian court ordered house arrest for former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition party to the governing socialists.
Albanian opposition MPs tried to block a vote on the budget by creating chair blockades, setting off smoke bombs, and lighting a small fire.
TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albania’s prime minister on Thursday denied that he had bribed or given preferential treatment to a former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official who has been indicted in the United States.
The Prime Minister of Albania has said Britain should look to its own “failed policies on borders and on crime” for the root cause of the Channel boat migrants crisis, instead of “scapegoating” his countrymen in particular.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Wednesday that his government’s National Cyber Security Center has determined hackers linked to the Iranian regime were “almost certainly” behind a massive cyberattack against the Albanian government in July. Albania severed diplomatic ties with Iran over the incident, enraging Tehran.
TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albania’s president has accused the U.S. ambassador of intervening in the small European country’s internal affairs by supporting its prime minister in an upcoming parliamentary election.
