Thousands of people took to the streets of Albania to protest plans for luxury tourism developments linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump over the weekend.

Demonstrators gathered in the capital, Tirana, and at the protected Vjosa-Narta lagoon on the country's Adriatic coast, where campaigners say a project threatens one of the Mediterranean's most important biodiversity hotspots.

Waving Albanian flags and carrying inflatable pink flamingos — which have become the symbol of the movement — protesters chanted "Cancel the project!" and marched under banners reading "Ivanka go home" and "Albania is not for sale".

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