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Italian Navy ship with 16 migrants on board arriving at the port of Shengjin, Albania
First asylum seekers arrive at Albanian port from Italy
TIRANA — The first asylum seekers from Italy to have their applications processed in Albania arrived via ship to the Albanian port of Shengjin on Wednesday morning.The 16 men will undergo health screening and identification procedures before being transferred, later in the day, to a reception camp in Gjader — located a few dozen kilometers from the port.The boat carried 10 Bangladeshi and six Egyptian nationals who were rescued at sea by the navy ship Libra heading to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Monday.After a five-year deal signed last November by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and her Albanian counterpart, Edi Rama, Italy formally opened two centers in Albania last week after months of delays, where it plans to process thousands of asylum-seekers who seek asylum outside its...
October 16, 2024

First asylum seekers arrive at Albanian port from Italy

Rescuers leave a vessel while carrying a man, who was reportedly saved after his sailboat had drifted for 67 days in waters edging the north-western Pacific
Russian man rescued after spending 67 days adrift
MOSCOW — A Russian man has been rescued after spending more than two months adrift in a small inflatable boat in the Sea of Okhotsk in the far east of Russia.Officials say a man, named by Russian media as Mikhail Pichugin, 46, was found by a fishing boat crew nearly 1,000km (620 miles) from where he set off in early August. The bodies of his brother and his 15-year-old nephew were reportedly found in the boat.Pichugin's wife said the trio had gone to sea to watch whales and taken food supplies for two weeks.She told Russia's state-run Ria Novosti news agency his weight may have been a factor in his survival — he was 100kg (15st 10lb) when he left for the trip, and reports say only half that when he was rescued 67 days later."We don't know anything yet. We just know...
October 16, 2024

Russian man rescued after spending 67 days adrift

Forensic police stand at the scene where Swedish rapper Einar was shot to death, in Hammarby Sjostad district in Stockholm, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021
Sweden's homicide rate linked to gang warfare is one of the highest in Europe
STOCKHOLM — Sweden's gang violence has escalated to the point where its homicide rate linked to gang warfare is now one of the highest in Europe, with shooters often being minors.There is an average of one shooting per day for every 10 million inhabitants, and in 2023, 53 people were killed in shootings.Fifty kilometers from the Swedish port city of Malmö, journalists met with a young man who wishes to remain anonymous.He alleges that he started out at the age of 14 as a drug trafficker, but these days he carries out a variety of orders like planting explosions or committing shootings.Ads are placed on encrypted messaging platforms. He claims to earn an average of €7,000 a month.“To blow up a door in Malmö costs €3,000. Then to kill someone it's €80,000 in Malmö,...
October 16, 2024

Sweden's homicide rate linked to gang warfare is one of the highest in Europe

Ciudad Real airport in Spain
Spanish airport under consideration for new migrant arrival center
MADRID — The Spanish government is considering setting up an emergency reception center for migrants at Ciudad Real airport located south of Madrid.According to Spain's Minister of Education and Science Pilar Alegria, politicians are exploring “hundreds” of locations.Private airport Ciudad Real serves as a potential site to offer temporary care to those arriving on the Spanish coast.The airport comprises of a 24,000 square metre terminal building and a 4,000-metre-long runway. It opened its doors in 2008 and declared bankruptcy four years later and since then has intermittently hosted private flights.Emiliano Garcia-Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha, the autonomous community in Spain where the airport is located, has said that he is unaware of the proposal.Ciudad Real Mayor...
October 16, 2024

Spanish airport under consideration for new migrant arrival center

Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama
Albania kicks off EU membership talks despite political turmoil at home
TIRANA — Albania will open its first chapter of accession talks with the European Union on Tuesday in Luxembourg, as it aims to make headway in its decade-long bid to join the 27-country bloc.Tuesday’s accession conference will be the second held between the EU and Albania since it became a candidate country in 2014. It will allow Brussels to scrutinize the so-called ‘fundamentals’ of accession, including how the country aligns with human rights, the rule of law and the functioning of democratic institutions.Talks on these issues will continue until the very end of the accession negotiations, and progress in implementing Brussels’ demands will determine the overall pace of the process.The talks were approved by EU ambassadors in late September after Albania was decoupled from...
October 15, 2024

Albania kicks off EU membership talks despite political turmoil at home

Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen to face judges in embezzlement trial
PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 25 members of her National Rally party will answer questions from judges at a court in Paris on Monday in an ongoing, high-stakes trial that has the potential to impact Le Pen's planned presidential bid.Le Pen and her party have been accused of embezzling European Parliament funds in the trial which opened last month.The far-right leader has denied any wrongdoing against allegations that the National Rally's top officials knowingly used money intended for EU parliamentary aides to instead pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016.Le Pen is set to answer questions starting Monday from the court over the use of EU money to pay her bodyguard, her chief of staff and two other party aides.She has denied the allegations,...
October 14, 2024

Marine Le Pen to face judges in embezzlement trial

The latest Nobel Prize in economics was announced in Stockholm on October 14, 2024
Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to trio for research on global inequality
LONDON — Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor.Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson will share the prize, which carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million).The Nobel Committee praised the trio for explaining why “societies with a poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better.”“When Europeans colonized large parts of the globe, the institutions in those societies changed,” the committee said, citing the economists’ work. While in many places this was aimed at exploiting the indigenous population, in other places it laid the foundations for inclusive...
October 14, 2024

Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to trio for research on global inequality

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni
Italian banker accused of breaching 3,500 accounts, including PM Meloni's
ROME — A former employee of a major Italian bank has been accused of repeatedly gaining unauthorized access to the bank accounts of about 3,500 individuals, retrieving the data some 6,000 times, authorities said on Thursday.Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her sister Arianna's accounts are among those allegedly hacked, as are those of numerous prominent Italian political figures, such as Senate President Ignazio La Russa, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, Tourism and European Affairs Minister Daniela Santanchè and Italian European Commissioner-designate Roberto Fitto.Alongside high-level politicians, the list of tampered accounts includes that of Giovanni Melillo, the prosecutor of the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, and several officers of the Carabinieri and...
October 11, 2024

Italian banker accused of breaching 3,500 accounts, including PM Meloni's

Belarusian biker shows his cancelled visa after returning from Polish border check point in Brest, 27 April 2015 (File)
Poland tightens entry rules after cash-for-visas scandal
WARSAW — Poland announced it would tighten its visa regulations following a probe by state auditors who found that under the previous government, the country's consulates in Asia and Africa took thousands of euros in exchange for work visas.The new rules will also apply to students looking to obtain study visas in Poland, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said in a speech on Thursday.Sikorski said that the right-wing Law and Justice or PiS party government, which developed the cash-for-visa scheme, lost control over the system from 2018 to 2023.“We can confirm that, unfortunately, in a scandalous way, unlawful pressure was exercised over Polish consuls with the intention of increasing the number of visas issued to people ... who should not necessarily obtain them, including the...
October 11, 2024

Poland tightens entry rules after cash-for-visas scandal

Turkey hosts about 3.2 million registered Syrian refugees
Brussels urges Turkey to probe alleged abuse in EU-funded migration centers
BRUSSELS — The European Commission urged Turkey on Friday to "thoroughly investigate allegations of wrongdoing" inside the migration centers that the country operates to deport Syrian and Afghan refugees with the bloc's financial help.The plea comes after an explosive investigation led by Lighthouse Reports found systematic mistreatment across the removal centers managed by the Turkish government and backed by €213 million in EU funds, marking a new controversial chapter in the EU-Turkey agreement signed in 2016 at the peak of the migration crisis.The media consortium details unsanitary and overcrowded conditions in the facilities, instances of abuse and torture against migrants, and a pattern of coercion to force detainees to sign documents of "voluntary"...
October 11, 2024

Brussels urges Turkey to probe alleged abuse in EU-funded migration centers

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