Albania

Tension still prevails in Përmet in Albania, where hundreds of Orthodox residents of the town came into conflict with the forces of private police that were lined up outside the Church of Virgin Mary. The church was taken over in...

Scenes of brutality against clergymen took place on August 17 at the Church of the Virgin Mary in Përmet, a town in Albania, capital of the Përmet District. The clergymen of the Metropolis of Gjirokastër of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church...

A multimember criminal gang was trafficking heroine and other drugs from Albania into the island of Kalymnos. During the organized operation, the police arrested 12 people, nine of whom are members of the gang, seized amounts of drugs, weapons...

Hellenic Police Chief, Lieutenant General Nikos Papagiannopoulos, rushed to Epirus on July 8 to see up close the course of the operation to locate the two dangerous Albanian escapees from the Trikala Prison, and put together a new plan...

The police have erected roadblocks from Acherontas to the Greek Albanian borders in Thesprotia, Epirus, while fully armed policemen are sweeping the region to detect and arrest the criminal escapees. The sea area from the village Ammoudia in Preveza to...

The  400-year-old church of Saint George in Moscopole, in the Korçë District, southeastern Albania, was plundered in the early morning hours of June 17. The thieves sawed the bars of the outer door and managed to remove an important part of...

The Human Rights Union Party denounced the acts of vandalism against it that took place during the electoral campaign in Albania. For the fourth time, unknown people destroyed billboards with posters which bore the photo of the president of the...

Greece and Italy have the largest number of Albanian immigrants, and from these two countries Albania receives the biggest part of money transfers. However, Open Data that has researched World Bank statistics stresses also the other side of remittances that...

According to the American website Price of Travel, three Greek islands were included on the list of the fourteen cheapest beach destinations in Europe. The Greek island of Kos ranked fifth, as according to the website, “The hotels in Kos...

The Greek Parliament has ratified the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between Albania, Italy and Greece on the construction and operation of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project, APA-Economics reported. The IGA between the three countries, which was signed in Athens on...