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Ivanka Trump issued warning after buying up tiny island paradise for $1.4 billion project
Irish Star
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July 2, 2025
Caroline Gaspich Entertainment Reporter 20:58 ET, 01 Jul 2025Updated 20:58 ET, 01 Jul 2025 Ivanka Trump has been issued a warning from locals as she and her husband have revealed plans to purchase the tiny Albanian island of Sazan and transform it...
Their next Duran: Aston Villa open talks to sign "powerful" £13m sensation
Football FanCast
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July 3, 2025
Are Aston Villa now able to spend freely? On Monday, completely coincidentally on the final day of their accounting year, the Villans sold their women's team to themselves, thereby avoiding breaching the Premier League's Profitability &...
Kosovo Begins Construction of Two New Bridges over the Ibar to Connect Mitrovica
Euronews Albania
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July 1, 2025
The construction of two new bridges on either side of the main bridge over the Ibar River — an initiative through which the acting Government of Kosovo aims to connect the Serb-majority North Mitrovica with the Albanian-majority South Mitrovica —...
EU Rapporteur Calls North Macedonia Reliable Partner, but Says Reforms Still Needed
Bulgarian News Agency
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North Macedonia is a reliable partner, especially when it comes to foreign and security policy, but reforms are still needed for the country to move forward on the path to EU membership, European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur on North Macedonia...
Sweden's Asllani gives away special shirt after fan's heartfelt plea
Channel News Asia
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July 9, 2025
ST. GALLEN, Switzerland :Sweden captain Kosovare Asllani had every intention of keeping the shirt she wore for her 200th cap in her side's 1-0 win over Denmark in their Women's Euros opener last week, but a woman's pleas from the stands as she...
Western Balkans Leaders’ Meeting reaffirms Commitment for swift delivery of the Growth Plan
Sarajevo Times
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July 2, 2025
Today, Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos and the leaders of the six Western Balkans partners (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) gathered in Skopje for a high-level meeting dedicated to the...
'Something that seemed utopic just a few years ago' – Meet Giusy Virelli, the woman behind the new incarnation of the Giro d'Italia Women
Cyclingnews
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July 2, 2025
Giusy Virelli is having her final few meetings at the RCS Sport offices in Milan before taking her flight ahead of the big opening day of the men's Giro d'Italia in Albania in May. For the RCS Sport events manager, this is the culmination of two...
Weapons Raids and Political Targeting: What Kosovo’s Election Tension...
ImpACT International
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Kosovo’s 2025 parliamentary elections took place in a climate marked by deep political, ethnic, and socioeconomic tensions. While the process was largely peaceful, the underlying issues of minority rights, state legitimacy, and economic hardship...
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner issued warning after buying up tiny island paradise for audacious $1.4 billion project… as locals adopt telling new nickname
Daily Mail
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June 29, 2025
As Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner move ahead with a plan to transform an Albanian island filled with decaying Soviet-era military outposts into a one-of-a-kind resort experience for the ultra wealthy, one local has a message for the couple....
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi Pauses Several Europe, Central Asia Routes
Routes
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Wizz Air Abu Dhabi will suspend or pause several routes in the coming weeks as part of a broader network realignment, affecting services across Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. The carrier, a joint venture between...
Media in the Balkans: the rise of oligarchs
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa
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More and more media in the Balkan region are being acquired and controlled by big tycoons. For journalists and industry experts, this trend is heavily reflected in editorial policies, creating growing problems of censorship and self-censorship The...
Western Balkans Leaders’ meeting in Skopje reaffirms commitment for swift delivery of the Growth Plan
The European Sting
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July 2, 2025
(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos and the leaders of the six Western Balkans partners (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro,...
France is ‘doing its best’ to stop small boats. Is this true?
The i paper
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July 8, 2025
Small boat arrivals are rising again, despite hundreds of millions given to France to police the Channel France is “doing [its] best” to stop small boat crossings and has been “strengthening cooperation” with the UK, according to Sylvie Bermann,...
Brits embrace 'coolcations' in face of multiple heatwaves
Globetrender
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July 8, 2025
British holidaymakers are increasingly seeking cooler destinations to escape rising temperatures, with searches for Nordic countries and Southern Hemisphere winter breaks surging this summer. Olivia Palamountain reports When the UK experienced its...
Abroad and Brooding: The Wine’s Cheap, the Coffee’s Strong, the Food’s a Poem—But the Grass Still Dies Eventually
eCoustics
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July 9, 2025
After the year I’ve had—13 weeks of inpatient therapy, moving houses like witness protection, a college graduation, and oh yeah, a ballistic missile war that forced us to cancel my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah in Israel at the last minute—you’d think...
What’s the Incentive for Anyone Good to Run?
Kandit News Group
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July 9, 2025
What a time to be alive! It’s in times like these that both journalistic and political careers are forged. Oh, how I remember reading George Smalley’s dispatch from the Battle of Antietam! Or how eager I was for the latest installment of what...
Athens shines as Europe’s Youth Entrepreneurship capital at Gen-E 2025 Festival
Great Reporter
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July 8, 2025
The heart of European youth entrepreneurship beat in Athens this July as Junior Achievement Greece successfully hosted the Gen-E 2025 Festival, Europe’s largest celebration and competition for young entrepreneurs. From July 1 to 3, more than 1,000...
Leaders of the Western Balkans and EU Commissioner Marta Kos in Skopje on the Growth Plan
Sarajevo Times
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July 1, 2025
European Union Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos and the leaders of six partners from the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) gathered today in Skopje for a high-level meeting...
Inside Robert Jenrick’s New Right revolution
New Statesman
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July 9, 2025
There is a story being told about Robert Jenrick. It runs like this: shortly after 7 October 2023, and shortly before he resigned as immigration minister from his friend Rishi Sunak’s government, he was with his three daughters, who have an...
OECD Report, SMEs Main Pillar of Employment
Albanian Daily News
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Minister of Economy, Culture and Innovation, Blendi Gonxhja, shared on Saturday the latest data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report “Economic Convergence Scoreboard for the Western Balkans 2025”. According...