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US Army mobile laboratory trains with live CBRN agents during NATO exercise in Europe
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 16, 2025
MARYLAND, UNITED STATES 07.16.2025 Courtesy Story ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – Soldiers from a U.S. Army mobile laboratory recently conducted live Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) agent training together with NATO allies during...
Sleepy town on 'TERRORISM watch' as federal agents launch huge covert operation
Daily Mail
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July 16, 2025
A tranquil corner of upstate New York has been shaken by fears of terrorism after seven foreign men — including five Iranians — were caught by federal agents trying to sneak across the US-Canada border. The dramatic arrests occurred on July 1 near...
BIG PICTURE: Spa owner opts for early retirement, transitions business to former employees
Daily Reporter - Indiana
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July 16, 2025
A Focused Touch Day Spa has opened a new chapter as its founder, Amy Hughes, takes an early retirement. She's leasing out space to her former employees, who now run their own independent businesses.Shelley Swift | Daily Reporter By Shelley Swift |...
Veliaj Ruling exposes judiciary’s failure to break free from political pressure
Gazeta Tema
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July 8, 2025
Albania’s Supreme Court has upheld the rulings of two lower courts against Tirana’s Mayor, Erion Veliaj, who will now await trial from behind bars. From a professional standpoint, this decision reflects the growing dependence of all judicial...
Keller Williams Expands to Singapore
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 16, 2025-- Keller Williams Realty, LLC (KW), the world's largest real estate franchise by agent count, is expanding across Asia. As momentum continues, KW has awarded a new master franchise in Singapore. As of...
Bishop Eleganti: The Church needs to preach the Gospel, not ‘synodality’
LifeSite
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July 16, 2025
News The faithful are crying out for Jesus, not more committees, process documents, and spiritual manipulation dressed as discernment. (LifeSiteNews) — For the sake of Christ’s love, please stop the overkill of synodal documents, intermediate...
KTI showcases global vision at its ‘Growing Together’ distributor conference
DFNI-Frontier
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July 16, 2025
Bulgaria-based, independent tobacco manufacturer KT International (KTI) held its KTI Distributor Conference 2025 from June 25–27 under the theme ‘Growing Together’, welcoming 50 distributor partners from more than 30 countries, reinforcing the...
Inflation reaches 2.4% in June, driven by food prices
Gazeta Tema
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July 8, 2025
Tirana, July 8 – Consumer prices in Albania rose by 2.4% year-on-year in June, up from 2.1% in the previous June, data from the national statistics institute INSTAT shows. This marks the highest annual inflation rate in over a year. Food and...
Air Canada and ITA Airways expand codeshare agreement
Business Traveller
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ITA Airways and Air Canada have expanded their partnership with a new codeshare agreement that lets passengers connect to an additional ten destinations across each other’s network. Specifically, Air Canada’s AC code will be placed on select ITA...
Rama orders public space crackdown
Gazeta Tema
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July 4, 2025
Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has given businesses two weeks to vacate public spaces or face enforcement. In a message posted on social media, he accused developers and commercial operators of turning shared land into private property and...
Central bank urges stronger lending to agriculture
Gazeta Tema
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July 8, 2025
Tirana, July 8 – The Bank of Albania and the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday called for increased bank lending to the agricultural sector, citing its low credit access despite its large role in the economy. Governor Gent Sejko said agriculture...
Agriculture's Share in Economy, Largest in Europe
Albanian Daily News
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Albania is facing a paradox, where food prices for the first time in history exceeded the European Union average, but meanwhile, the country has the highest share of agriculture in its economy compared to all countries in Europe. The latest...
Pashinyan says satisfied with Abu Dhabi talks
PanARMENIAN.Net
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July 16, 2025 - 19:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed satisfaction at the July 10 negotiations in Abu Dhabi with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, saying the discussions “can have positive results.” He added that...
PM demands probe over national park inaction
Gazeta Tema
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July 8, 2025
Tirana, July 8 –Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Tuesday called for a disciplinary investigation into a Shkodra prosecutor who allegedly failed to pursue illegal construction in a protected national park. Rama said the Ministry of Justice will...
A renaissance for nature as the World Heritage Committee closes in Paris
IUCN
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Under the calm and efficient chairpersonship of Prof Nikolay Nenov of Bulgaria, and rapporteured by Ms Joelle Bucyana of Rwanda, IUCN played a large part in the meeting in our role as statutory advisory body on nature to the World Heritage...
Iran’s envoy to Pakistan ‘widely respected’, says FO after FBI adds him to most wanted list
Dawn
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July 16, 2025
Pakistan on Wednesday stressed that Iran’s envoy in Islamabad, Reza Amiri Moghadam, was “widely respected” after the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) added him to its Most Wanted list for his alleged role in the 2007...
Two Albanian men appear in court accused of running South Tyneside cannabis farm
Sunderland Echo
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July 16, 2025
Two Albanian men have appeared in court accused of running a cannabis farm in South Tyneside. Endri Rexha, 22, and Remzi Ferati, 20, are alleged to have been found at an address in Eden Walk, Jarrow, on Wednesday, July 9. South Tyneside...
Where is Jared Kushner?
The Spectator Australia
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July 15, 2025
Where is Jared Kushner? In the first Trump term, as senior advisor to the President, he was everywhere and into everything. At home, he designed policies and plotted re-election efforts. Abroad, he orchestrated the Abraham Accords, which...
Baze: Berisha’s rule is a biological question
Gazeta Tema
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July 8, 2025
Tirana, July 8 – TemA publisher and analyst Mero Baze has described the country’s main opposition party as a defunct political entity serving the personal interests of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha and his family, urging the public to...
SPAK waging political lynching campaigns, Baze says
Gazeta Tema
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July 8, 2025
Tirana, July 8 – Albanian veteran journalist Mero Baze has accused the country’s anti-corruption prosecution office, SPAK, of engaging in politically motivated detentions and disinformation campaigns, describing its practices as “criminal” and...