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  • Pay the invoice for those idiots: Italy PM after vacationers’ dine and sprint in Albania

    After 4 Italian vacationers left a cafe in Albania with out paying, Italy’s govt stepped in to settle the eating place invoice in a diplomatic act.

    Albania’s High Minister, Edi Rama, had raised the ‘dine and sprint’ incident with Italian High Minister Giorgia Meloni throughout her talk over with to the rustic.

    In reaction, Meloni prompt the Italian ambassador to pay the invoice for the vacationers, pointing out, “Move and pay the invoice for those idiots,” as reported through Los angeles Stampa newspaper.

    Italy’s embassy in Albania has showed that it has paid the invoice on behalf of its electorate. The quantity reportedly totaled round €80 or Rs 7,245.

    In a commentary, the embassy expressed that the Italians appreciate the foundations and repay their money owed, hoping that incidents like this could now not occur once more.

    Francesco Lollobrigida, Italy’s agriculture minister and Meloni’s brother-in-law, who was once additionally at the commute, informed Reuters that paying the invoice was once an issue of pleasure, pronouncing, “A couple of cheating people can’t embarrass a country of respectable other folks.”

    The precise date of this incident stays unclear. On the other hand, a safety video appearing the crowd strolling out of the eating place and disappearing into the night time has long past viral on social media.

    The eating place proprietor, in an interview with Albania’s Document TV, stated that it was once the primary time shoppers had left with out paying, including that the 4 Italians even complimented the meals.

    (With inputs from Reuters)

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    Aug 20, 2023

  • Stranded Truck Drivers Pulled From Burning Greek Ferry

    CORFU, Greece (AP) — Rescue experts boarded a burning ferry in Greece to unfastened two truck drivers who have been stranded within the vessel for greater than 15 hours Friday, however hope used to be fading for 11 others have been reported lacking.

    The rescuers descended from a helicopter onto the send thru thick clouds of smoke to sooner or later find the 2 males within the Euroferry Olympia ferry who had spent hours on a parking deck looking ahead to lend a hand.

    The coast guard stated 278 passengers and staff have been rescued previous within the day from a fireplace that engulfed the Italy-bound ferry with 291 other folks on board close to the Greek island of Corfu.

    The reason for the blaze used to be unclear. The Italy-based ferry corporate stated it began in a dangle the place automobiles have been parked, whilst officers showed that nationals from Albania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Italy, and Lithuania have been a few of the rescued.

    “I believed dying had come from me,” Albanian truck driving force Zef Lufi instructed the Related Press after his rescue. “there used to be such a lot smoke. I believed we wouldn’t make it. it took us about an hour and a part earlier than we were given into the lifeboats and about 3 extra hours earlier than we have been picked up.”

    The rescued passengers, many wrapped in foil blankets, have been all transported to Corfu the place 10 other folks have been hospitalized. None have been in critical situation and maximum had respiring difficulties.

    It used to be the worst maritime incident in Greece because the 2014 fireplace within the Adriatic sea at the Greek-chartered passenger ferry Norman Atlantic killed no less than 10 other folks.

    Friday’s predawn fireplace broke out within the Ionian Sea at the Italy-flagged vessel 3 hours after it left the port of Igoumenitsa in northwest Greece for the Italian port of Brindisi. Greek government stated 239 passengers and 51 staff participants on board, including that the vessel used to be transporting greater than 153 vans and 32 automobiles.

    As evening fell, the send used to be surrounded by way of firefighting vessels, together with a small automotive ferry used as a floating platform for fireplace vans to lend a hand within the effort

    The 183-meter (600-foot) Euroferry Olympia, inbuilt 1995, is operated by way of the Grimaldi Workforce, founded in Naples, Italy. It used to be touring close to the small Greek island of Ereikousa, 15 kilometers north of Corfu, when the fireplace began.

    Many of the passengers have been rescued by way of an Italian customs inspection boat that used to be passing the ferry when the fireplace broke out. It used to be later joined by way of six boats from Greece’s coast guard and 4 helicopters, in addition to a coast guard vessel from within sight Albania, a number of firefighting vessels and privately-chartered boats.

  • Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and UAE sign up for Safety Council

    The United Country Safety Council were given 5 new individuals on Tuesday as Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates officially took up the posts they gained in an election in June.

    Ambassadors made transient remarks and put in their international locations’ flags along the ones of different individuals out of doors the council chambers, and posed for a gaggle picture – dressed in face mask and status aside in an acknowledgment of the continued coronavirus pandemic.

    The flag rite is a practice that Kazakhstan began when it used to be at the council in 2018.

    The 15 member council is the UN’s maximum robust frame. China, France, Russia, the UK and america are its everlasting individuals with veto energy.

    Different individuals are elected via the 193 member Common Meeting for staggered, two-year phrases which can be allotted via world areas.

    Estonia, Niger, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam completed their phrases on Friday.

    Nations ceaselessly marketing campaign for seats for years. Successful offers them a say on peacekeeping missions and the council’s different approaches to warfare hotspots, plus a powerful voice on overarching problems with world peace and safety.

    Council individuals may also convene conferences on safety subjects of explicit passion to them, and smaller international locations get a chance to percentage a distinguished platform with global powers.

    Albania is becoming a member of for the primary time whilst Brazil is taking an eleventh flip. Gabon and Ghana every had been at the council thrice earlier than and the UAE as soon as.

    Greater than 50 of the UN’s 193 member international locations have by no means been elected to the council because it used to be shaped in 1946.