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'The job here is miserable - I'm happy to be arrested'

Erald Abmetaj had come into the UK from Albania and found himself with nowhere to live

Manchester Evening News

Charity workers' mission to learn why Albanians make perilous journey to UK

Researchers from the Sanctuary Foundation, led by Dr Krish Kandiah are set for a “fact-finding mission”, seeking to find ways of discouraging young people not to make the dangerous journey.

Daily Mirror

Poor Albanian town pins tourism hopes on communist tunnels

Under the Albanian town of Kukes lies a vast warren of underground tunnels and a military command center, relics of the former communist regime's fear of a foreign invasion that never came

The Independent UK

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Queens Park Rangers manager makes Premier League prediction for Bristol City talent

Bristol City attacking midfielder Anis Mehmeti made his debut for Albania this week and few people were more delighted than Queens Park Rangers manager Gareth Ainsworth

Bristol Post

Guard killed in gun attack on Albanian TV channel

Tirana (AFP) - A security guard was killed in a gun attack on Albania's largest broadcaster early Monday, with the country's premier calling the assault on the media outlet "worrying".

AFP

Perth striker Abbie Ferguson on Scotland U19 selection and why she will always remember her days at Jeanfield Swifts

Ferguson, a former Perth Grammar student, will travel for fixtures against Albania and then Liechtenstein

Daily Record

‘I just dreamt of a better life in a big country’

As the debate over immigration grows increasingly heated, one country has been more vilified than any other. Kate Wills finds out the effect this shift in perception has had on life for London’s Albanian community

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PM tells Rishi Sunak he wants Albanians in UK to feel ‘honoured’

Edi Rama used his visit to No 10 to stress that just as all Britons are not Mr Bean, not all Albanians are characters from the thriller Taken.

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman blasted by Albanian PM over 'disgraceful' migrant comments

Edi Rama, who is the UK ahead of a meeting with Rishi Sunak, voiced his anger at the way Albanians have been singled out by the Home Secretary

Daily Mirror

Albanian PM hits out at Braverman over ‘disgraceful’ comments on migrants

Edi Rama says home secretary’s references to ‘Albanian criminals’ could themselves be considered a crime

The Guardian - UK

Albanian premier hits out at ‘disgraceful’ Braverman attack on migrants

Edi Rama said the Home Secretary’s comments about ‘Albanian criminals’ crossing the Channel marked a low point in relations.

The Independent UK

Eager young Albanians risk everything for new future in UK

Thousands of young Albanians have crossed the English Channel in recent years to seek a new life in the U.K. Their dangerous journey in small boats or inflatable dinghies reflects Albania's anemic economy and a younger generation’s longing for fresh opportunities

The Independent UK

Artist of the voting world: Albania’s PM Edi Rama mixes paint with politics

This week Rama debuts exhibition in Greece and will be first Albanian PM to visit 10 Downing Street

The Guardian - UK

‘The hydropower goldrush’: how Europe’s first wild river national park saw off the dams

The Vjosa River in Albania teems with more than 1,000 species, while rare vultures and Balkan lynx visit its banks. It has seen off the threat of a surge in barriers, but the shadow of development persists

The Guardian - UK

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Daily Record

Ylber Ramadani earns high Aberdeen praise as Alan Burrows goes Albanian with one word assessment

The Albanian midfielder has been one of the stand out players for the Pittodrie outfit this season and has developed a good relationship with Graeme Shinnie since the former Don joined on loan in January.

Daily Mirror

Best Europe holidays where it's cheap once you're there from Croatia to Poland

If you tot up all the requirements for a week away - including food, alcohol, flights and accommodation - two people can spend a week in destinations including Albania and Montenegro for far less than France, Spain and Italy

The Independent UK

Albania declares new national river park, backs airport plan

Albania's government has formally designated the Vjosa River and its tributaries a national park, starting with an investment of some $80 million (75 million euros) to stop wastewater being poured into the river

The Guardian - UK

‘Historic moment’ for nature as Europe’s first wild river national park announced in Albania

A project with outdoor gear company Patagonia and NGOs will protect the Vjosa, one of the continent’s last free-flowing waterways

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Daily Mirror

'Our parents thought a small boat was safer than a warzone so we fled Albania for the UK'

Dritan Kastrati nearly died three times when he was smuggled out of mainland Europe to escape his home on the Kosovan-Albanian border at the age of 11

Tribune News Service

James Stavridis: The US military needs to create a Cyber Force

Two disturbing incidents roiled the cyber seas last week, one foreign and one domestic. They both strengthen the case — which was already convincing, and which I have been making for almost a decade now — for the creation of a U.S. Cyber Force.

Nottingham Post

Boy from Nottingham died after he was hit by van on holiday in Albania with his family

The family had been walking to the beach

Evening Standard

Why are Albanian migrants coming to the UK?

The European country has been called ‘safe’ by the prime minister despite a huge rise in migrants coming to the UK

The Independent UK

Small boat arrivals: How have they affected UK asylum applications?

Around two-thirds of applications from Albanian nationals in 2022 originated from small boat arrivals.

The Independent UK

They were murdered by Albania’s communist regime. Three decades on, families are still searching for their remains

Eleanor Myers, winner of the fourth Rupert Cornwell Prize for Journalism, speaks to relatives of some of the thousands believed executed about their fight to find their loved ones – so they can lay them to rest

The Guardian - UK

Young Albanian men ‘viciously exploited’ after arriving in UK

Charity says asylum seekers from Albania travel to the UK primarily because of poverty and corruption

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