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This buzzing city is so much more than a stopover on the way to Albania’s white sand beaches. Vicky Jessop has your guide to ...
That figure is misleading: many are members of Albania’s global diaspora who have foreign passports, visit several times a year and are counted anew each time. Still, it is clear that tourism is ...
Firefighters battled on Monday to put out wildfires in three separate provinces of Turkey, in Greece and near a tourist ...
An Albanian court has begun the corruption trial of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha. The trial, which started Monday, also ...
In Albania, confronting the raw realities of the past appears to still be a work in progress. “The opinion of the world about us was damaged by the events of the ‘90s when we opened up ...
Albania was the last nation in Europe to ditch Communism, doing so in 1991 with a frenzy of attacks on statues of Mr. Hoxha, his memorial hall and everything he stood for.
On a sunny October day in Albania’s capital, Tirana, Samir Mane beams as he walks through his Tirana East Gate Mall, a 1.2 million square foot temple to capitalism with international brands ...
Albania will hold a maximum of 3,000 migrants at any one time under a deal announced this week allowing Italy to build two migrant reception and detention camps there, official documents showed on ...
Albania, which has a large, mostly secular Muslim population, severed relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran in September, expelling its diplomats in response to what experts say is the most ...
The first-ever long weekend holiday to Albania ended badly. We 20 or so pioneers had paid (I recall) £295 for a package that included flights from Heathrow via Zagreb to Titograd – now ...
Leka II says he is “very proud” of his Australian heritage and credits his late mother’s Aussie roots for instilling in him both “openness” and an uncanny ability to “read the room”.