On October 22, Albania became the second Muslim-majority country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The Washington Post reported that the ...

Albanian President Bajram Begaj meets Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tirana, Albania.Albanian Prime Ministry/Anadolu via Getty Images Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Albania Thursday ...

Albania has been announced as the Official Host Country of ITB Berlin 2025. On Wednesday, 6 March 2024, Albania’s Minister of Tourism and Environment Mirela Kumbaro and Dr. Mario Tobias, CEO of Messe ...

ELBASAN, Albania (JTA) — Isaac Herzog’s visit to Albania last week marked the first time an Israeli leader set foot in the only European country that ended World War II with more Jews than it started ...

The Albanian Prime Minister turned up at his offices in Tirana for our interview wearing what he called his “painting clothes”—denim work shirt and jeans, lightly paint-spattered. Edi Rama had spent ...

FILE - Sali Berisha, the leader of the Albanian opposition center-right Democratic Party, injured, speaks after he has been attacked during an anti-government protest held near a summit of European ...

— -- After years of tumult, warfare with the Balkans and a Maoist cultural revolution in the 1960s, Albania is tentatively embracing democracy and a bit of stability. The transition for the tiny, ...

It was just 8 years ago that Canada's Bankers Petroleum (BNK-TSX) began developing one of Europe's biggest oil fields – in Albania. The main reason for that – Albpetrol, Albania's national oil company ...

An Albanian national claims that he never killed anybody and should not be deported. The Albanian government convicted someone with the name Altin Hasani in absentia in 1999. In an exclusive interview ...

Albania has a historic opportunity to break with the past and accelerate its path towards prosperity and integration into the EU. The country needs deep structural reforms in order to eliminate ...

Area: 28,748 sq. km. (slightly larger than Maryland). Major cities: Capital -Tirana (600,000, 2005 est.). Others – Durres (200,000, 2005 est.), Shkoder (81,000 ...

Albania is a small, mountainous country in the Balkan peninsula, with a long Adriatic and Ionian coastline. Along with neighbouring and mainly Albanian-inhabited Kosovo, it has a Muslim majority - a ...