Former Albanian President Ilir Meta was arrested on Tuesday in the capital of Tirana on suspected money-laundering and corruption charges, as well as hiding personal income following a visit to ...

Edi Rama came to Thessaloniki on Sunday with good news for the Albanian community in Greece. Addressing a flag-waving crowd of some 2,000 supporters, Rama said they will be able to vote by mail in ...

Albania's left-wing Freedom Party said Monday its leader and former Albanian President Ilir Meta has been arrested on alleged corruption charges. Meta, 55, was arrested in the capital, Tirana, by ...

Albanian officials say they prevented a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port TIRANA, Albania -- TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania ...

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s program to screen asylum seekers outside of European Union borders in Albania hit another snag when a court in Rome refused to rule on a formal ...

Meta served as Albania's president from 2017 to 2022. He now leads the center-left opposition Freedom Party. Freedom Party officials denounced his detention as a "criminal kidnapping." Video of ...

Former Albanian President Ilir Meta was forcefully arrested in Tirana on Monday by the Special Prosecutors for Corruption (SPAK) on alleged corruption charges. Meta is under investigation for ...

Police said they had to take him by force. One of Europe's poorest nations, Albania's politics have been marred by instability and graft since the fall of Communism in the early 1990s. That has ...

SHENGJIN, Albania, Nov 8 (Reuters) - An Italian navy ship carrying a small group of migrants docked in an Albanian port on Friday in an attempt by Rome to salvage a plan to process asylum seekers ...

Former President Ilir Meta, now leader of the opposition Freedom Party, was arrested on charges of corruption, money-laundering and non-declaration of assets. Then president Albania Ilir Meta in ...

The coastal city of Vlore was, until recently, a secret to many outside of Albania, surrounded by some of the most unspoilt nature reserves in Europe, a haven for rare bird watching and a stop-off ...

The government was forced on Saturday to return 12 migrants who had previously been taken to Italy's new migrant-processing centres in Albania, after a court in Rome cast doubt on the scheme.