Albanian PM Edi Rama made a thoughtful gesture to Italian PM Giorgia Meloni on her 48th birthday Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama made a thoughtful gesture to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ...

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TIRANA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Albania's government has granted strategic investor status to a company linked to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner to build a luxury resort on an uninhabited ...

It’s not just Washington or Bucharest. Albania is coming down on TikTok with a fresh ban — a move that could draw scrutiny from Brussels as the country works to clear the bar on civil rights ...

When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni unveiled her flagship plan to intercept, detain and process asylum-seekers in Albania, it was presented as a grand answer to Europe’s migration crisis. But ...

TIRANA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Every evening, Ergus Katiaj uploads a video on TikTok reminding customers that his shop in Tirana delivers potato chips, cigarettes and alcohol through the night.

A court in Rome rules that the first 12 migrants sent to Albania should be brought back to Italy. Arben Kolgjoku said he worked at the illegal grow to pay off a debt, as his parents raised him.

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