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Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the Albanian capital and hundreds in a protected nature reserve on the country’s coast to protest plans for a luxury beach resort by a company linked to the Trump family.Answering a call from environmental organizations, activists from across the country and local residents flocked at midday to the Vjosa-Narta lagoon, around 150 kilometers (90 miles) southwest of the capital Tirana.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.It was the latest in a series of protests against a project whose cost is estimated at around four billion euros ($4.6 billion), linked to US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.“The whole of this marine area is a protected zone. To destroy it would be fatal for this region’s biodiversity,” one protester, Emiljona Puja, a finance worker, told AFP.Protesters gathered on a sandy beach facing azure waters, some waving red Albanian flags, others
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