Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990.

ARNIS, Germany (AP) — In the smallest town in Germany, just one out of 228 eligible voters cast their ballot for Alternative for Germany even as the far-right, anti-immigrant party saw historic ...

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 ...

TIRANA – In the heart of the capital, the villa of Albania’s former dictator welcomes ... role in helping transform the home of former communist leader Enver Hoxha into a chic new residency.

In addition, he referred to the issue of the thousands of missing persons in Albania during the communist regime who “to this day are not entitled to a decent grave and their relatives cannot ...

With a new electronic fence being built on the border with Belarus, Warsaw says it can better manage the migration crisis being fomented by the Lukashenko regime. But environmental activists decry ...

No government in post-communist Albania has secured a fourth mandate—until Rama’s third term, even a third had never been achieved. This historic milestone raises concerns about political entrenchment ...

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 ...

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, ...