00:02Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama acted as his country's ambassador at the Euronews Travel and Tourism Summit on Tuesday.
00:09Speaking at the event, Rama praised the development of tourism infrastructure in Albania.
00:15He said the country's approach helped attract nearly 12 million foreign tourists last year
00:20and was quick to point out that Albania did not enjoy the same immediate success as some of its Balkan
00:26neighbours.
00:27When Croatia was a destination for many Europeans, we were the most isolated country in Europe, North Korea of Europe.
00:39Despite the surge in Albania's popularity as a tourism destination, Rama also acknowledged that the development of tourism must be
00:47managed.
00:48One of the downsides of this is that by having tourism that is developed based on the middle low income
00:57tourists,
00:59we risk to have a country under big stress on its infrastructure, on its nature, on its services, and we
01:11risk to not get back what we can.
01:15While investing on a tourism of high income, the high-end tourism, we lower the stress on the country and
01:26we get more from them.
01:29Rama also commented on the controversial 1.4 billion euros project linked to US President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
01:36The proposed project is to be developed on the inhabited island of Sazan and its adjacent shoreline, which sits within
01:44a protected area around the northern lagoon.
01:46The announcement of the project sparked numerous protests in the country in recent months.
01:51If the construction will go ahead or not, this will be decided not in the streets, but in the science.
02:02So if we have an environmental impact assessment that tells us where we are right and where we could be
02:14wrong, we will adjust what could be wrong and we will go for the right.
02:19If it will say to us, no way to touch here, we will not touch.
02:24But it's science that should decide. It's not the street and the ideology.
02:31Pope Leo XIV offered a radically opposing view to that of US President Donald Trump's on the need for further
02:38AI safety measures.
02:40Speaking to journalists as he departed France following a four-day visit and the first apostolic journey to the country
02:46in 18 years,
02:47the Poniff noted that industry experts' concerns should be listened to.
02:51In recent months, various top AI executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei, have sounded the alarm that AI may be
03:00advancing too rapidly
03:01and that a deceleration is needed for safety measures to catch up.
03:06If someone were to ask me, am I in panic mode? No, I'm not. I sleep at night.
03:12I do think that the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously.
03:19I don't think that that is fake news, as some have said, to try and cause whether financial or some
03:26other kind of benefit.
03:28Trump had, on more than one occasion, dismissed such concerns as a hoax stemming from his political opponents
03:34and even berated figures like Amadei for raising them.
03:37We need to continue to invite political leaders, the leaders of AI, social organizations, associations,
03:47to come together and look at what is happening already and what could be down the road.
03:53To simply say, oh, it's not going to happen and close our eyes to it,
03:57I think is probably not the most responsible way to go about that.
04:01The US-born Pope has been one of the most notable figures championing greater AI safety regulations.
04:07Just days after his election, he dedicated his first encyclical to AI
04:12and urged major players in the space to do more to prevent the technology from posing catastrophic risks to humanity.
04:24The president of the French far-right national rally party, Jordan Bardella,
04:28has denied accusations of anti-Semitic comments,
04:31which the investigative website Mediapart reported he made in texts written in 2013.
04:37Bardella wrote on X he formally rejected the allegations, which he described as crude forgeries.
04:44He said his lawyer had filed a lawsuit for defamation
04:47and added that he believed he was being targeted in an attempt to destabilize his party's campaign,
04:52months before the presidential election.
04:54National Rally's presidential front-runner Marine Le Pen also dismissed the claims as fake.
05:26The media parts investigation is built on comments and private chats
05:30allegedly written by Bardella when he was 17 or 18 years old, and it maintains it authenticated the comments.
05:37Bardella has been a key player in Le Pen's project of so-called de-demonization to make the national rally
05:43into an electable force.
05:46Both have moved to rid it of the legacy of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded and led
05:51the party and repeatedly made anti-Semitic remarks.
05:55The allegations emerged as Le Pen's prospects for the 2027 elections appear stronger than at any point in her previous
06:03campaigns.
06:10EU foreign ministers made on Monday to strengthen the bloc's response to hybrid attacks.
06:15They have been tasked with developing the EU's emergency security protocol designed to help EU countries coordinate their responses when
06:24a hybrid threat is identified.
06:25Of course, we need to be vigilant because we see in the intelligence that Russia is planning more sabotage acts
06:32and actually, you know, attacks against our democracy to divide our society, to intimidate our societies from refraining to help
06:42Ukraine.
06:43So this is something that they have in mind, and we have to keep this in mind as well to
06:50be, you know, standing up to these threats.
06:53The urgency has been underscored by a series of recent incidents, including the breach of Finnish airspace by a Russian
07:01aircraft on Friday, prompting Finnish and Swedish authorities to scramble fighter jets.
07:06The Finnish defense minister said this incident should serve as a springboard for Europe to strengthen its air defenses.
07:13We need money, we need joint procurements, we need cooperation.
07:18The incident came on the same day that the Danish Defense Intelligence Service said the risk of Russian military action
07:25against NATO countries was growing,
07:27while describing an outright invasion as highly unlikely, but not impossible.
07:36German wholesaler Metro has lost operational control of its Russian business after President Vladimir Putin placed the subsidiary under temporary
07:44administration.
07:45The decree transferred management of Metro cash and carries Russian operations to Torgrus but gave no reason for the decision.
07:54Metro says it still formally owns the subsidiary and it's assessing the consequences.
08:00The company entered Russia in 2001 and operates 91 wholesale stores there, employing around 9,000 people.
08:09Russia remains a significant market for Metro, accounting for around 8.7% of group sales during the first nine
08:16months of its latest financial year.
08:19The move follows similar action against the Russian businesses of Nestle and Olshan.
08:25It also comes amid worsening relations between Moscow and Berlin following diplomatic tensions and accusations surrounding an attempted drone attack
08:32at Leipzig airport.
08:39French teenagers set fire to rubbish bins and hurled projectiles in clashes with police on Tuesday as they kept up
08:46a blockade of high schools to demand better conditions.
08:49Since last week, high school students across France staged protests outside their schools over grievances including timetables, class sizes and
08:58a shortage of teachers as well as overheated classrooms in the wake of the recent heat waves.
09:21The actions came as unions planned a day of nationwide demonstrations and also strikes over the budget of Prime Minister
09:29Sébastien Le Gornu.
09:30Tens of thousands were expected to rally in Paris and other cities and protesting students also expressed solidarity with teachers
09:38who were on strike over wages and workload.
09:43A school attack by a teenage student in northwestern Slovakia has left a 61-year-old woman dead and another
09:50woman and a child wounded.
09:51The attack happened at a school in Stasco on Tuesday.
09:56Emergency services said the two injured were taken to hospital including a 44-year-old woman with a stab wound
10:02to the chest.
10:03Slovak media reported that the woman killed was a teacher while another teacher and a poop were wounded.
10:10They said the attacker was an 8th grade student which is typically between the ages of 13 and 15.
10:17Police said they were investigating what they described as a violent crime and that the situation was under control.
10:24Prime Minister Robert Fico expressed his condolences saying he was deeply saddened by the attack.
10:31President Peter Pellegrini said he was shocked by another case of a student attacking teachers and a classmate
10:37and called for an atmosphere of greater calm rather than further radicalization.
10:47Thousands have been evacuated from Mexico's Baja California as Hurricane Polo made landfall on Tuesday threatening flash floods and mudslides.
10:58Strong winds churned the sea and waves of Puerto San Carlos, a small fishing port of nearly 6,000 people.
11:06This year's Pacific hurricane season is shaping up as more severe than usual as the Super El Nino wreaks devastation
11:13in the form of historic droughts and flooding.
11:17The military has deployed nearly 7,000 troops in the state where classes were suspended
11:22and public servants have been ordered to work from home where possible.
11:28Forecasters said it would hit the Mexican mainland after lashing Baja California sore
11:33and that life threatening winds and flash floods were expected.
11:36It could bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the US southwest later in the week.
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