Albania News

Since June, hundreds of people, mostly women and children, have taken ill while harvesting illegal marijuana in Albania, according to a Reuters report published Friday.

In Albania, the Kanun, a centuries-old code of conduct still regulating many aspects of life in rural areas, especially the mountainous north, requires that killings be avenged with blood.

Tirana - The remains of Europe’s strangest monarch, King Zog I of Albania, were exhumed in France and repatriated to Albania on Thursday last week.

Tirana - A vast array of ugly Igloo-shaped concrete bunkers litter Albania, a constant reminder of former Communist dictator Enver Hoxha's paranoia. A joint German-Albanian tourism project plans to put beds in the bunkers to transform them into tourist hostels.

Tirana - As Albanian gay rights activists announced plans to hold the nation's first ever gay pride parade in May. An Albanian minister said activists should be beaten with truncheons, if the event goes ahead.

Once the butt of many jokes, Albania is emerging as one of Europe's hottest new destinations, and its ambassadors are taking the message from Tel Aviv to Berlin. Digital Journal caught up with one of them in Montenegro.

Albania's Central Bank announces a sharp increase in residential housing prices in the latest piece of good news from the former Communist country.

Brussels - Citizens of Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina who possess biometric passports will be able to travel without a visa in the Schengen area from mid-December. The decision came today after a meeting of the Council of the European Union (EU).

Four more detainees have been transferred out of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Three men from North Africa have been accepted by Albania, with the remaining man from the Palestinian Territories being accepted by Spain.

Silvio Berlusconi, the gaffe-prone Prime Minister of Italy, on Friday told his Albanian counterpart Sali Berisha that the only immigrants he would accept from his country were beautiful girls.