Albania was once a socialist backwater with just 1,265 cars in the whole country. And though living standards have improved ...

Zorba estimated that up to 3,000 foreign Jews found refuge in Albania during World War II. “Only 100 meters from here lived the Kurmaku family, one of the families that protected Jewish people ...

Italian authorities have rejected the asylum requests of 43 asylum-seekers transferred to Albania in a speedy procedure that a non-governmental delegation observing the process said illegally deprived ...

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country's Orthodox Christian Church after the fall of the country's communist regime ...

Italian judges have blocked prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s scheme to detain migrants in centres in Albania, according to reports.

An Italian Navy ship has delivered 49 people to an Albanian port as Rome resumed the controversial transfer of migrants to the Balkan nation. Italian authorities said that the ship docked in the ...

Italy has begun its controversial scheme to send asylum seekers arriving by sea to Albania for processing. Years in the making, the scheme is a response to a perceived crisis of people arriving on ...

In the first two attempts, Italian judges ruled that the 24 people brought to Albania, mostly from Bangladesh and Egypt, had to be returned to Italy as their countries could not be deemed “safe ...

The migrants were among 49 people who were transferred to Albania on an Italian naval ship Tuesday under a five-year agreement with Albania to process asylum cases outside EU borders in centers ...