Albania protests: Police used water cannons to disperse protestors

All right, let's move on. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said that he will not step down. This as the country is in the grip of violent student-led protests that entered a third consecutive day today. Well, the protests mark the biggest challenge yet to Rama, who won a fourth term last year with EU membership at the centre of his campaign. Rama said he is ready to discuss the rising cost of education, but added that attacking institutions, destroying public property and threatening public safety have nothing to do with the legitimate demands of students. The Prime Minister earlier visited a burned building that housed the College of Europe in Tirana, blaming opposition forces rather than students for the destruction. These organisers of the protest are other hands. These are hands that try to pull Albania down every time Albania goes up. These are the hands of an opposition which, with masks, blindly advancing with fire and iron, seeking to return Albania to where Albania will not return. The police used water cannon to disperse protesters who smashed windows and damaged property in the capital, prompting the parliament to cancel its session. Thursday's protests also spread to several smaller cities as students joined university boycotts. As protests again began, the police pushed back crowds trying to approach the education ministry and the parliament while demonstrators hurled stones at officers students protesting the rising education costs and corruption have called for Rama's resignation the protest remember follow months of mostly peaceful demonstrations sparked by plans to build a luxury resort on Albania's southern coast backed by U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, a project that has faced legal challenges. Police say 65 people were arrested during Wednesday's protests, suspected of attacking police officers, institutions, public and private property. The health ministry said that hospitals in Tirana treated 89 people on Wednesday, including 61 police officers. Anti-government protests are taking place in different parts of the world. Thousands of Colombians took to the streets of Bogota on Wednesday in the first major protest against President Abelardo del La Espria just two months after he took office. The march comes a day after del La Espria signed a decree establishing new guidelines for regulating social movements and police intervention during protests. Opposition groups have announced plans to challenge the decree before the Council of State and file legal motions to suspend it. Opposition has called the measure unconstitutional and claims it restricts the right to protest. We have decided to take to the streets two months after this government took office because the decisions and announcements of this government go against the rights of workers and the people of Colombia. In France, students in Halloween costumes held meetings and dance contests as they continued to protest. Despite weeks of blockades and demonstrations, the students say they are finding festive ways of demonstrating to keep the movement going and keep the morale up despite a sometimes heavy-handed response from the authorities. The goal is to do fun, communal activities together and just have fun. It shows that we don't let the repression and all that get us down and that we can find good things even when we should be sad and that we're stronger together. In Asia, hundreds of people protested a petrol shortage in Indonesia's resort island of Bali, Officials blame the fuel shortage to supply disruptions. They urge residents to stay calm, noting that there was enough fuel to go around on the island that relies on shipped-in gasoline and diesel supplies. Long lines stretched more than a kilometre at several gas stations in the provincial capital of Denpasar. According to state-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina, the supply disruption was due to delays in distribution after a tanker had trouble discharging its cargo. Indonesia has already been grappling with fuel shortages this year since the start of the Iran war that has disrupted global energy supplies. Jakarta introduced a policy limiting fuel purchases in March and ordered civil servants to work from home every Friday part of the government's efforts to save energy.