Albania's capital Tirana has seen months of protests from an anti-government "Flamingo" movement, but what started on Tuesday this week was on a different scale.
And the clashes have spread beyond Tirana - to include the main cities of Durrës, Shkodër, Lezhë and Vlora in the west, Gjirokastër in the south and Korçë in the east.
The ninth edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival brings together a strong showing of Arab cinema to the Red Sea, with a lineup spanning emerging regional voices, established filmmakers, and prize-winning titles from Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance and Shanghai.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said Friday it plans to make extensive upgrades to its Florida launch facilities with the goal of supporting multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.
Video of the moment a police dog named Bruno leapt from a freeway overpass and received serious injuries has been released by authorities in Utah, as the animal continues to recover at home.
David Surkamp, frontman for the long-running progressive-rock band Pavlov’s Dog, has died at age 73, according to a social media post on the band’s social media accounts. No cause of death was announced.
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If you’re planning to preorder an iPhone Duo, you’ll want to do so ASAP. The official release date is October 23, and preorders just began this morning. However, unless you’ve already locked in your preorder, you’ll have to wait several months to get your hands on Apple’s first foldable phone (unless you're willing to shell out nearly $5,000 on eBay, anyway). Even if you preorder now from Apple, at the time of this writing, you won’t get your iPhone Duo until late January 2027.
Luis Aburto is the Founder and CEO of Scio, a custom software development firm serving North American organizations.
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Most conversations about AI-assisted software development focus on productivity: “How much faster can developers work?”
Counterfeits of luxury goods are a major problem for fashion houses. Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands’ marks and passing off dupes, known as “superfakes,” as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.
Manchester United head coach Michael Carrick says he is "telling the truth" when he says the club have moved on from Lisandro Martinez's explosive post-match comments this week.
Carrick's close friend and team-mate Wayne Rooney led the condemnation of Martinez, saying the Argentine defender could "rip the dressing room apart" with his attack on United's hierarchy after the 2-0 Champions League defeat by Atletico Madrid.
Buying votes is technically illegal in the U.S., but there are lots of little loopholes candidates can use to say they're just "encouraging voting." That seems to be what Michigan Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers' wife was doing earlier this week, when she rolled up to a Freedom Fuels gas station on Detroit's East Side.