Spain clinches second FIFA World Cup title as Europe continues its dominance on football’s biggest stage By Gautam Karve, Editor-in-Chief, World Media Organization Tirana Times, July 22, 2026 – Spain secured its
by Monika Grill Tirana Times, July 11, 2026 – “K’cimi i Tropoja” – the dance that endured over centuries and kept the Albanian identity alive, has been officially declared part of the
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From left to right: AIIS Director Alba Cela, Ambassador Manuel Montobbio, Spanish Ambassador Gabriel Cremades.
Tirana Times, July 02, 2026. The Albanian Institute for International Studies and Tirana Times book house hosted a special literary evening in Tirana with Ambassador Manuel Montobbio, diplomat, writer, poet and academic, offering a rare encounter
TIRANA, Feb. 17 – A court has ordered the suspension of construction works at a controversial project to build a luxury veil-like square in front of the country’s biggest port of Durres
TIRANA, Feb. 16 – Rare ancient items discovered in Albania’s waters by a U.S.-Albanian expedition were put on display this week in Tirana’s sole pedestrian neighborhood in the capital’s city center in
TIRANA, Feb. 14 – Ermal Meta finished third in Italy’s prestigious Sanremo music festival and also grabbed the Critics and Best Cover awards, making history as the first Albania-born artist to achieve
TIRANA, Feb. 13 – Hundreds of artifacts illegally excavated and looted from the Apollonia archaeological park, southwestern Albania, apparently intended to be trafficked abroad, have been seized. Police say three people have
TIRANA, Feb. 9 – Works to build a luxury veil-like square in front of the country’s biggest port of Durres next to the ancient walls of the Durres castle have brought to
TIRANA, Feb. 2 – Vaclav Havel’s The Beggar’s Opera satirical comedy is making its comeback at the National Theatre this weekend after its last December premiere. Directed by Albania’s Mehmet Xhelili, the
TIRANA, Feb. 1 – Robert Schuman’s sole book, Pour L’Europe (For Europe) is now available in Albanian in a new publication by the Library of International Relations and History of the Albanian
TIRANA, Jan. 30 – One year after the reopening of Ismail Kadare’s house as a museum, the home of Albania’s internationally renowned writer and perennial Nobel candidate has turned into one of
TIRANA, Jan. 26 – At a time when tensions between ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and Serbia are escalating, an Italy-based Albanian-Serb female musical duo is breaking stereotypes by playing with historical and
TIRANA, Jan. 26 – Tirana-based opera singers have travelled to Kuwait to perform some of the best Albanian pieces at the Kuwait multicultural festival. Sopranos Eva Golemi, Vikena Kamenica and baritone Armando
TIRANA, Jan. 25 – Vaclav Havel’s legacy and his three concepts of the power of powerless, living in truth and responsibility have been unveiled in Tirana by Michael Zantovsky, a diplomat and