The Western Balkans countries — Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia — are at different stages in their applications for EU membership. They have been frustrated by the slow ...

The Albanian Cabinet has decided to shut down TikTok for 12 months, blaming the video-sharing platform for inciting violence ...

More serious, however, are the actions of the Albanian police and secret service in the south of Albania, where most ethnic Greeks live. Particularly before the trial of the five Omonia leaders ...

In Albania's capital, Baba Mondi envisions a Vatican-like state ... "This state will have neither police, nor army, nor taxes; it will be spiritual," said the leader. "Its purpose will be the ...

manipulation of the legal system and violence by the police. In part, these abuses are the result of Albania’s Stalinist past. But in many cases, the human rights violations in Albania today are ...

police, or military. Rama said that the symbolic state would not compromise Albania’s sovereignty but would provide an official headquarters for the order, which has been based in Albania since ...

The Special Prosecution Against Corruption (SPAK) in Albania ordered the arrest of the capital’s mayor Erion Veliaj on Monday by the forces of the Investigation Bureau for passive corruption and money ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Environmental groups on Tuesday criticized Albania’s silence and lack of progress in analyzing 102 containers suspected of carrying a large amount of hazardous waste.

After months of calls for him to resign over alleged corruption, the mayor of Albania’s capital was ... clashes between demonstrators and police.