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canetoad

(21,111 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 03:20 AM 4 hrs ago

A 'flamingo revolution' vs a Trump resort. Inside Albania's anti-Kushner protests

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Ms Trump has since waxed poetic about the private yacht trip and subsequent dip which sparked the development idea.

"We swam to the islands, went on a hike barefoot all the way up to the top and we were just captivated and it stayed with us ever since," she told podcast host David Senra in May.

From there, the island has been on a journey "to help realise its potential", as the US president's daughter coined it.

This included preliminary approval from the Albanian government, which occurred on December 30.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-07/explained-kushner-resort-flamingo-protests/106769258

* The Paragraph has obviously become redundant on some well respeted news sources. Maybe copyright issues but maybe nobody bothered to explain to young journos that a paragraph was a handy device for organising your written words.

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