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 ...

The UK has agreed to step up its partnership with Albania following a successful summer in which the two countries carried out a collaborative crackdown on drugs and crime. Over the summer ...

Albania is implementing important structural reforms that will support equitable growth, raise productivity and competitiveness in the economy, create more jobs, and improve governance and public ...

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 ...

Italy’s government has declared 19 countries safe for migrants as part of a new law designed to salvage its €670 million plan to process asylum seekers in Albania. In an emergency cabinet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Italy’s right-wing government, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, approved a decree on Monday aimed at bypassing the legal obstacles of a controversial deal with Albania to detain and process ...