Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Thursday rejected calls to resign as thousands of student-led protesters smashed windows and fought running battles with riot police firing water cannon and tear gas in the capital. The demonstrators accuse officials of corruption and neglecting education and say they are angry about the sale of parts of Albania's southern coastline to a luxury resort development backed by US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Tirana's streets were littered with burned out garbage bins, shattered bus stops and broken traffic lights. Police fired tear gas, sound grenades and water cannon at rock-hurling protesters who set light to a kiosk, laid barricades and raided a bank. The protesters are demanding Rama's resignation, saying no one had listened to their concerns during a summer of largely peaceful protests over the development. Rama, whose government denies corruption, said he would be ready to discuss the rising cost of education but rejected...
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