TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of ...

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Vibrant capital Tirana ... where old passports are sold alongside swords and tomatoes, been served by 12-year-old waiters at atmospheric cafés and stayed at quirky, family-run hotels (one ...

The Serious Crimes Sector at the Tirana Police Department, thanks to rapid and professional investigative actions, as well as the analysis of evidence, has identified and declared wanted the suspected ...

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but with a big heart," the Bektashi leader told AFP in Tirana, draped in a white tunic ... have been unimaginable during the four decade communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha who banned religion ...

The troops and officials have drunk up the stocks of imported cognac at the best hotels and are now reduced ... where Lumumba’s old Communist-lining Information Minister Anicet Kashamura took ...

the citizens of Tirana united in a grand protest, which culminated in the toppling of the monument to dictator Enver Hoxha. February 20, 1991 marked the end of the communist regime in Albania. One of ...

Two months on from his failed coup, an anti-communist frenzy is gripping Yoon's supporters, young and old. Even some who had never given North Korea or communism much thought are now convinced ...