On a squat peninsula along southern Albania’s Ionian coast, Porto Palermo Castle, a three-sided fortress of neatly dressed masonry fringed with notches for cannons, commands the sea from nearly 100 ...

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The State Department is so far refusing to comment on a growing corruption crisis engulfing the Balkan nation of Albania, a vital U.S. ally in the region. Following an Albanian court’s decision to ...

FOR EDI RAMA these are the best of times and the worst of times—but mostly the best. In May Albania’s prime minister was elected to a fourth consecutive term. His country’s GDP has grown by 160% in ...