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With just days remaining before the first Flying Tiger Copenhagen stores open in the Western Balkans, excitement is building for what promises to be a new era in retail across the region. The inaugural stores will open on 22 October at East Gate Mall, Skopje, followed by 24 October at TEG, Tirana, and 6 November in Prishtina. Over the next four years, the strategic partnership with BALFIN Group will see 50 stores across five countries, creating around 400 new jobs and setting new standards for retail experiences in the region.

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.

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Ekspertët paralajmërojnë se zëvendësimi i produkteve natyrale me përbërës artificialë ka ndikim të drejtpërdrejtë në rritjen e sëmundjeve kardiovaskulare. Sipas INSTAT, 52.9% e vdekjeve në Shqipëri lidhen me problemet e zemrës, një nga përqindjet më të larta në Evropë.

An action day performed in Latvia on 10 October 2025 led to the arrest of five cybercriminals of Latvian nationality and the seizure of infrastructure used to enable crimes against thousands of victims across Europe. During the operation codenamed ‘SIMCARTEL’, law enforcement arrested two further suspects, took down five servers and seized 1 200 SIM box devices alongside 40 000 active SIM cards. Investigators from Austria, Estonia and Latvia, together with their colleagues at Europol und Eurojust, were able to attribute to the criminal network more than 1 700 individual cyber fraud cases in Austria and 1 500 in Latvia, with a total loss of several million euros. The financial loss in Austria alone amounts to around EUR 4.5 million, as well as EUR 420 000 in Latvia.

The European Investment Bank’s development arm, EIB Global, said that it will focus on supporting strategic infrastructure projects in the EU candidate countries, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, in the 2025-2027 period to boost regional connectivity and integration.