Italy's government is ready to push ahead with a contested plan to hold asylum seekers in detention centres in Albania, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday.
Lake Ohrid, a UNESCO World Heritage site that straddles North Macedonia and Albania, is at risk from pollution, overfishing, and urban development, the United Nations body and experts say.
Albania receives first group of migrants in the port of Shengjin on Wednesday morning under a deal with Italy, setting in motion the EU's first asylum seeker diversion scheme.
Two reception centres built in Albania opened on Friday to take in migrants arriving in Italy, an Italian official said, part of a bilateral deal to curb irregular migration into the European Union.
Albanian police said they had arrested four people in the past 24 hours for causing fires as soldiers and firefighters were deployed in coastal tourist areas to fight spreading forest blazes.
