Albania News

A MUDDY crater marks the spot near Tirana airport where a stockpile of artillery shells blew up last March.

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Berlin - Albania is keeping up its fight against corruption and crime, Prime Minister Sali Berisha said Wednesday during a visit to the German capital Berlin.

BERLIN : The investigation into the death of a whistle-blower in Albania appears to be nearing its conclusion, but with little hope of quelling the suspicion and speculation surrounding the case.

International Orthodox Christian Charities has delivered 25 pallets of medical supplies and over-the-counter drugs to Tirana, Albania.

TIRANA, Albania -- Deputy Environment Minister Aleksander Garuli says Albania plans to mark its freshwater border with Greece for the first time.

Drene Markgjoni spent 12 years in a hard-labor camp, punished for her fiance's attempt to flee Albania's regime, then one of the world's most repressive and isolationist.

Here and there on the Mediterranean waterfront around Sarande, a little town currently publicized with wan hope as "the southern gateway for tourism into Albania," you can spot evocative relics of communist ...

TIRANA, Albania -- A delegation of prosecutors from the UN war crimes tribunal is expected to visit Albania shortly to investigate allegations hundreds of captured Serbs and Romas were murdered for their bodily ...

The Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund in Albania, Ann-Margret Westin, made the following statement in Tirana on September 26: "The current three-year IMF arrangement with Albania, which ...

Albania's prime minister vows further co-operation with the United States. Also in diplomatic news this week: Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou is in Cuba, and Turkey's Gul says he will visit Iraq.

Tirana, Albania - Czech power company CEZ won preliminary approval Monday to take a controlling stake in Albania's only electricity distributor for 102 million euros , beating a rival bid by Italian utility ...

Tirana police sequestered on Wednesday 200 kg of smuggled gold, an amount estimated at a value of Euro one million, and arrested two men who had turned their flat into a facility for illegal activity.

The driver of the Albanian minibus, or furgon, sped from Tirana to Berat in fourth gear.

THETH, ALBANIA -- The "Accursed Mountains" tower high above the Shala Valley, snow clinging to their summits even in the summer.

Workers clear debris on a new road linking Albania's port of Durres on the Adriatic and newly-independent Kosovo.

The Katuci home in Rribe. Burrel seems to be under a curse. Nothing is left of the old caravanserais in the mountains north of the Albanian capital Tirana, which once served as way stations en route to the ...

TIRANA, Albania -- The Human Rights Union Party , a ruling coalition ally, has asked the government to replace its current party representative, Minister of Work, Social Welfare and Equal Rights, Kosta Barka.

War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukeeviae is expected to visit Albanian in October regarding an investigation into Kosovo kidnappings.

The European Commission is giving Albania 245 million to help it prepare for accession to the European Union.