The Latest Breaking News from Albania

Around two-thirds of applications from Albanian nationals in 2022 originated from small boat arrivals.

Eleanor Myers, winner of the fourth Rupert Cornwell Prize for Journalism, speaks to relatives of some of the thousands believed executed about their fight to find their loved ones – so they can lay them to rest

Charity says asylum seekers from Albania travel to the UK primarily because of poverty and corruption

Thousands of Albanian opposition supporters have protested anew in the capital Tirana, calling for the prime minister’s resignation for alleged corruption and mishandling of the small Balkan nation’s economy

From a pine-shaded eco-resort in Croatia to a campsite in Portugal, our tipsters share their favourite breaks

Albania’s prime minister has denied that he bribed or gave preferential treatment to a former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official who has been indicted in the U.S. Edi Rama told Parliament Thursday that the opposition wanted “to politically exploit a legal process in the USA that has no links at all…

Greta Dyrmishi had been working for airline Air Albania when she fainted and died in December - her untimely passing was found to be caused by sudden adult death syndrome

Albania was the most common nationality applying for asylum in the UK in 2022.

Greta Dyrmishi, 24, fainted after the Air Albania flight on December 21 last year

Baftjar Bilalaj, 25, attacked the young woman in a park as she returned to her college after a night out in October 2021.

Baftjar Bilalaj had been voluntarily deported under an early release scheme in January