Albania was once a socialist backwater with just 1,265 cars in the whole country. And though living standards have improved ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama shake hands after a joint press conference in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Babani, ...

Albania's Prime Minister wants to give a state and nationhood — similar to the Vatican in Italy — to a Muslim minority within the country. This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. It's ...

TIRANA (Reuters) - Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime ...

When announcing his plan to create a sovereign state for the Shia Sufi Bektashi Order in the Albanian capital, Tirana, Prime Minister Edi Rama chose to paraphrase the late ethnic Albanian nun and ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Sunday during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly’s Summit of the Future an ambitious initiative to create a Bektashi sovereign state within ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. It's not often that plans for an entirely new nation are announced in public without a revolution, civil war, even so much as a spirited debate, ...