Last year, around 12% of ITAKA passengers travelling to Turkey and the Albanian coast came from the Eastern Hungary region.

Hoxha’s rule of terror murdered 5,577 men and 450 women in Albania. Communist regimes throughout history have produced their fair share of cults of personality (cue the eponymous 1988 song by Living ...

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s ...

Foto Strakosha is a name etched in the history of Albanian football. Born on March 29, 1965, in Memaliaj, Albania, Strakosha rose to prominence as one of the country's finest goalkeepers.

After two failed attempts to sent migrants and asylum seekers to camps in Albania for processing under a controversial scheme ...

Italy says it is transferring 49 migrants picked up in the Mediterranean to new processing centers in Albania, in the third ...

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s first attempt to have asylum seekers held for assessment overseas was immediately blocked by judges. Now another is underway.

MILAN, ITALY – OCTOBER 27: Piotr Zielinski of FC Internazionale celebrates with Lautaro Martinez after scoring his team’s ...

Prince Leka marked the 105th anniversary of the Congress of Lushnjë with a heartfelt tribute to the founders of Albania.

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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 ...

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 ...