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Europe up in arms: Nearly 1,000 arrested in France, violent clashes in Albania and Spain, as protesters storm Colosseum
More than 400,000 people take to the streets across France as 70,000 police officers are deployed. Nearly 100 arrests in Barcelona, clashes in Rome and further unrest in Albania, Portugal and Belgium. A wave of mass demonstrations and violent unrest is sweeping across Europe, spreading beyond France, where protests that began in Paris schools a […]


Over 1000 arrests, hundreds injured in violent protests across France, as riots rage on in Spain and Albania
Clashes erupt in Paris, Marseille and Lyon as hundreds of thousands take to the streets, while police confront rioting protesters in Spain, Albania, and Belgium

Albania: Anti-Rama student protests spread nationwide, with clashes, injuries and arrests
School and university students take to the streets in seven cities, demanding the prime minister’s resignation. Socialist Party offices attacked in Shkodër, schoolgirl injured in Lezhë. Rama accuses the opposition of inciting violence and blames ‘foreign hands’
New chaos in Albania as protests erupt: Stones thrown at Parliament and Ministries, Bins Set on Fire (videos)
Mass demonstrations by university and school students continue for a third consecutive day. Protesters are demanding the resignation of Edi Rama, who refuses to step down

Kosovitsa in Northern Epirus: The village divided between Greece & Albania in 1923
Its centuries-old history, how it got its name – Its cession to Albania under the Florence Protocol (1913) and its final transfer to the neighbouring country in 1923 – The district that remained in Greece and the founding of the village of Agia Marina – The Battle of Mourgkana in 1948 and Kosovitsa as a passage into Albania

Eleven arrested over murder of 20-year-old Portuguese tourist in Albania: Bar brawl followed by fatal beach fight
Suspect is a 29-year-old man who was found hiding in a car trunk — The young tourist reportedly tried to intervene to stop the fight but ended up being stabbed

Suspected gangster behind Kushner’s Albania land deal is facing drug charges
Albanian prosecutors have frozen the funds Artur Shehu received for disputed land near Zvërnec as cocaine trafficking charges emerge, while thousands of protesters call for Prime Minister Edi Rama to abandon the $5 billion venture

Are Europe’s massive wildfires becoming the new normal? How they ignite, what fuels them, and lessons from France and Spain
Blazes have burned 420 square kilometres in Gironde and forced 220,000 evacuations, while Spain's fires proved 20 times more likely due to climate change, as heatwaves push the fire risk further toward London and Paris


