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—❗️🇦🇱 WATCH: Villagers in Librazhd, eastern Albania, have torn down fences erected as part of the construction of a local hydroelectric power plant.

➡️ Village representatives stated that the barriers had blocked access to their primary source of drinking water for six months, adding that ongoing construction works in the area have contaminated the water supply.

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—🇦🇱 WATCH: "Paradise or profit? On Albania’s coast, locals are fighting plans for a luxury resort backed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, warning it could threaten one of the country’s most pristine natural areas."

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—🇦🇱 POLITICO: Albanian PM Edi Rama railed against the “Flamingo Revolution” yesterday, criticizing the crowds’ actions and referring to a faction of the protesters as “hajvan” — an Albanian term roughly meaning “stupid.”

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—🇧🇬/🇪🇺/🇲🇰 WATCH: Bulgarian President Iliana Yotova has raised alarms over last-minute efforts in the European Parliament to remove references to the Bulgaria-North Macedonia Joint Historical Commission from Skopje’s EU progress report.

➡️ She also strongly condemned the recent arson of Bulgarian embassy vehicles in Skopje, describing the incident as a direct attack on the Bulgarian state.

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—❗️🇪🇺/🇷🇺 POLITICO: "A member of European Council President António Costa’s cabinet reached out to open a channel of communication with the Kremlin, an EU official has told POLITICO."

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—❗️🇧🇬/🇪🇺 WATCH: Bulgarian FM Velislava Petrova-Chamova stated that Sofia will not fully support the 21st EU sanctions package against Russia.

➡️ She emphasized that Bulgaria opposes energy-related sanctions to protect its national energy stability, as well as measures targeting Patriarch Kirill, warning that such "symbolic" sanctions could be exploited for anti-EU propaganda.

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—🇦🇱 THE ECONOMIST: "Albania’s new protest movement is dominated by the young—some call it a Gen Z revolt. But demonstrations without strong leaders and concrete plans may end up achieving little."

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—❗️🇷🇸 (🇧🇦) /🇮🇷 WATCH: In a recent interview with journalist Lara Logan, Republika Srpska leader Milorad Dodik claimed that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and Iranian IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani were present in Bosnia during the 1990s conflict.

➡️ Dodik alleged that foreign Islamist fighters and Iranian operatives played a significant role in the war, stating that hundreds of IRGC members operated in the country under diplomatic cover while foreign jihadists fought alongside Bosnian Muslim forces.

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