21 trip to Albania was the Holy Father’s encounter with an 85 year-old Franciscan Stigmatine nun, who recalled witnessing to the faith in the midst of the Communist regime. TIRANA, Albania: Among the ...

Nazmi Rrahmani, one of the first Kosovo Albanian writers to have his works published in isolated communist-era Albania, looks back on a career marked by struggles and strange surprises. “You on ...

The whole world will be able to see the light of the Bektashis.” The creation of a religious state in Albania would have been unimaginable during the four decade communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years after the head of the center-right opposition, Friedrich Merz, won Sunday’s election, which saw a surge for a ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thanin Kraivichien, an anti-communist judge who became Thailand’s prime minister after a 1976 military coup but was ousted by another coup a year later because of his hard-line ...

Many Albanians in Yugoslavia came to see Albania as a promised land, but Albania’s treatment of ethnic Albanian writers and artists from outside its borders was often brutal. This post is also ...

According to her testimony, documented in a video published online, security officers detained and mistreated her simply for wearing a T-shirt with the symbol of the Albanian flag and the image of the ...

Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central ... officials from both sides in attendance; 8. Various of flags of Ireland, European Union; FILE: Dublin ...

"12 people, 10 of them minors, have been detained after allegedly entering North Mitrovica with Albanian flags. Later, some Serbs attacked them with stones. We have detained two vehicles, one of which ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An interior view of Villa 31 where the late communist dictator Enver Hoxha, once a symbol of totalitarian ...