The holiday is in celebration of the Albanian Declaration of Independence, which was signed in November, 1912, as well as the raising of the Albanian flag in Viora and Kruje on November 28, 1443. The ...

Experts say the details of a 2021 land deal involving Albania’s current justice minister warrant investigation. A decade ago, pensioner Isuf Kerciku decided to move from his home in a northern ...

Edi Rama came to Thessaloniki on Sunday with good news for the Albanian community in Greece. Addressing a flag-waving crowd of some 2,000 supporters, Rama said they will be able to vote by mail in ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Albanian opposition activists blocked major roads for several hours on Tuesday in a nationwide rally ...

Ilir Meta, the former president of Albania and leader of the opposition Freedom Party, was arrested Monday in Tirana on charges of corruption, money laundering, and failure to declare assets. Agents ...

The leader of an Albanian gang who ran a multi-million pound operation smuggling their countrymen into Britain has been jailed for eight years. Mhill Sokoli, 35, was also fined £88,000.

Albania's left-wing Freedom Party said Monday its leader and former Albanian President Ilir Meta has been arrested on alleged corruption charges. Meta, 55, was arrested in the capital, Tirana, by ...

Albanian officials say they prevented a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port TIRANA, Albania -- TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania ...

Police said they had to take him by force. One of Europe's poorest nations, Albania's politics have been marred by instability and graft since the fall of Communism in the early 1990s. That has ...

Meta served as Albania's president from 2017 to 2022. He now leads the center-left opposition Freedom Party. Freedom Party officials denounced his detention as a "criminal kidnapping." Video of ...

An Albanian burglar who raided the homes of Premier ... selected in the hope and expectation of rich pickings' and the gang carried out 'rapid untidy searches'. When Krosi - who travelled to ...

Albania is implementing important structural reforms that will support equitable growth, raise productivity and competitiveness in the economy, create more jobs, and improve governance and public ...