🇮🇹 UPDATED: The Army has been deployed in Milan.

—❗️🇷🇸 WATCH: Former Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić said Europe’s rising military spending points towards a major conflict.

➡️ Asked whether a world war would break out, he replied: “I would be the happiest man if I were wrong. But I fear I am not.”

🔗 Full interview · Video excerpt

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—🇦🇱 Isa Myzyraj | For the first time, university professors in #Tirana have walked out of their classes to join the student protests, which have been ongoing for seven days, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama.

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—🔥🇦🇱 WATCH: Aerial footage shows fireworks and water cannon during clashes between protesters and police in Albania’s capital.

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🇮🇹 Bologna, Italy

—❗️🇦🇱 Albania’s anti-corruption agency, SPAK, has formally charged former Deputy PM and close ally of PM Rama Belinda Balluku, with five criminal offenses:

- Public tender violations
- Passive corruption/bribery
- High-level corruption
- False asset declarations
- Money laundering

Balluku was previously seen as a replacement for Rama.

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—🔴 WATCH: Clashes continue at Tirana's Skanderbeg Square.

➡️ Video from the square shows projectiles crossing the area amid clouds of smoke.

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—🇫🇷 Deputies demand the closing of the National Assembly due to fear of an "intrusion" this Saturday

—🇷🇸❌🇺🇸 Clash Report | Serbia's Vučić:

Do you think it's easy for us, as a militarily neutral country, when we're surrounded by NATO countries?

Only Bosnia and Herzegovina is not in NATO, and that's only because Republika Srpska is there.

Our entire surroundings are NATO. That's why we're arming ourselves.

We are the only truly neutral country. Austria is formally neutral, but we are genuinely neutral.

And we have to defend ourselves. We know how small our country is. And yet we are like a thorn in everyone's eye.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇴🇲 — Russia will soon open a military attaché office in Oman, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu announces.

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—🇬🇷 Why thousands are marching in Greece

➡️ Students and teachers are protesting over underfunded public education, staff shortages and the rising cost of living, especially student housing.

➡️ Police estimated the Athens turnout at around 10,000.

🔗 Reuters · Greek public broadcaster ERT

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—🇮🇹 Milan Cathedral has been placed under heavy police protection

—🔥🇦🇱 WATCH: A student in Tirana, Albania, climbed a really tall lamppost to take down police cameras.

🔗 Mario Nawfal

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