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For four decades, he ruled Albania with an iron fist ... the paranoid, reclusive communist dictator who died in 1985 - which is precisely the point. Hitherto a sprawling, three-storey monument ...

After being sealed off from the outside world for decades and experiencing a mass exodus, Albania is leaning into its culinary roots with the help of grandma chefs.

The landscape of this European country is dotted with concrete military bunkers that offer tourists an insight into its dark ...

European Union enlargement commissioner Marta Kos has hailed Albania’s progress in the membership negotiations and as a ...

Forty years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, whose four-decade rule over Albania drove it into isolation and poverty, Qasa Alom explores how the country has changed. In the capital Tirana ...

TIRANA, Albania — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, ...

Second, in the violent build-up and aftermath of communism's collapse in the 1990s, 710,000 citizens – 20% of the population – fled Albania from 1989 to 2001 in search of work in other countries.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s ...