20+ hour, 23+ min ago   (316+ words) Behgjet Pacolli’s company, Mabco, has formally accused the Albanian government in an arbitration proceeding of seeking to terminate its concession for Vlora International Airport and transfer the project to Israeli businessman Ron Yeffet. The allegation is contained in a legal…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (980+ words) Erion Veliaj has remained nominally in office as mayor of Tirana despite being held in what is known as pre-trial detention (PTD) since February 2025. He is accused of corruption and money laundering but strongly denies any wrong doing. The latest,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (590+ words) German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has clashed with AfD leader Alice Weidel in parliament, calling her party a "destructive force" with a migration policy that amounts to "ethnic cleansing" for skilled workers. Merz was addressing the Bundestag in the aftermath of…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (112+ words) Protests outside Albania’s Parliament escalated on Tuesday evening after the end of a plenary session, with clashes reported between demonstrators and police. Several protesters threw eggs and water bottles at the car of Socialist Party lawmaker Ilva Gjuzi as she…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (885+ words) The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is "very, very close" to taking power in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, its deputy parliamentary leader has told the BBC, after a historic victory in elections there. Sunday's preliminary results show it fell…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (208+ words) Albanian port authorities on August 29 prevented the oil tanker Hanuman from entering the Port of Durres after Ukraine’s military intelligence identified the vessel as part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet,” used to transport oil and fuel despite Western sanctions. The…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (756+ words) Thousands of people have turned out in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, to attend the funeral of the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladi?. Widely known as the Butcher of Bosnia, Mladi? died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (594+ words) The head office of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency has been hit in a Russian drone attack, sending plumes of black smoke rising into the air in the heart of Kyiv. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he had instructed the SBU…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (152+ words) The mayor of Himara, Vangjel Tavo, has issued an urgent call for residents to evacuate as a rapidly worsening wildfire moves toward the coastal city in southern Albania. Tavo urged people to immediately leave homes, businesses and other areas at…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (397+ words) The heads of Nato and the European Commission have warned that Russia is growing increasingly reckless and vowed to respond to a "new normal". "Leipzig marks a new escalation on European Union soil directly attributed to Russia," said Commission President…...