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I first travelled to Albania at the unruly age of 20. With no plans or money, and the long university holidays stretched ...

Holidaymakers combine bathing in warm water with sunbathing on the beach, but few know about the underwater wonders of Albania, which every year attract the increasing number of local and foreign ...

Albania will open its first chapter of accession talks with the European Union on Tuesday in Luxembourg, as it aims to make headway in its decade-long bid to join the 27-country bloc. Tuesday’s ...

Albania aims to become a full-fledged member of the European Union by the end of the decade, its Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Tuesday, following the opening of accession negotiations he called ...

The ruling was a major blow to the conservative government’s plan to have asylum claims heard in Albania instead of Italy. By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Italian ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer giving a speech during the Interpol General Assembly, at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow. (PA) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ...

An Italian navy ship has docked in Albania to deliver refugees and migrants, the first such mission under a controversial deal between the two countries that sends asylum seekers outside the ...

Italy's plan to process asylum seekers in Albania was dealt a serious blow on Friday, just days after the first group of migrants were sent to the Balkan country. A court in Rome ruled that 12 of ...

But the first migrants sent to Albania were deemed ineligible for detention there. GJADER, Albania — Behind a high metal fence close to the edge of Europe, Italy’s far-right government this ...