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Mecca Defense Pact Signals Saudi Arabia’s Bid to Shape a New Security Order

The agreement with Turkey and nuclear-armed Pakistan strengthens Riyadh’s position as a central architect of regional security, while reflecting a broader shift toward a more multipolar international system. Tirana Times, August 08,

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SPAK Brings New Charges Against Former Deputy PM Balluku

Tirana Times, August 07, 2026 — Albania’s Special Prosecution Office Against Corruption and Organized Crime has brought new allegations against former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, widening one of the most politically sensitive

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Milošević’s Language Returns to Serbia’s Government

Ethnic Cleansing Remark Tests Serbia’s Claim to Have Broken With Milošević A Serbian minister’s declared willingness to expel Kosovo Albanians has drawn condemnation across the region and Europe. Belgrade’s refusal to remove

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Tirana council approves increase in tap water price

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TIRANA, July 27 – Tirana’s municipal council has approved a request by Mayor Erion Veliaj to increase the price of tap water in the Albanian capital by about 30 percent, with businesses

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Ballot boxes used in the elections. With most votes counted, the Socialist led coalition has won the majority of municipal council seats. (Photo: CEC)

CEC finalizes results in record time

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TIRANA, July 25 – Albania’s Central Election Commission approved this week the final results of the June 25 general parliamentary elections, marking the first time in recent history that the body has

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Albania will open EU talks soon, Bulgaria says ahead of EU presidency

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TIRANA, July 25 – Bulgaria sees EU enlargement as a priority, and as the Balkan country prepares to take on the presidency of the bloc, its foreign minister says Albania is likely

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Ambassador Bernd Borchardt, Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania. (Photo: Handout)

Youth exchange initiative launched to help promote democratic values

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TIRANA, July 27 – Forty young people from the Western Balkans will get a chance to attend training and discussion sessions as well as outdoor and social activities in and around the

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Kadare: ‘I have waved neither the dissident, nor the conformist flag. I wrote normal literature in an abnormal country’

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Albania’s internationally renowned writer Ismail Kadare, a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, says his works written both under communist and in the post-1990s have remained the same in content,

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France worried over wave of Albanian asylum seekers

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TIRANA, July 21 – France has expressed its concern over a rising number of Albanian asylum-seekers, asking Albanian authorities to tackle the phenomenon in the next three months. The alarm was raised

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Opposition Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha

Basha reelected DP leader with 91% of vote as critics cry foul

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TIRANA, July 23 – Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha has won a landslide election within the party to keep his seat as opposition leader a month after the DP suffered the worst

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Tirana mayor selected among world’s top 40 innovative local leaders

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TIRANA, July 21 – Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj has been picked as one of the world’s top 40 mayors to launch to “Bloomberg-Harvard City Leadership Initiative” recently held in New York under

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Police seize 17 tons of marijuana in southwestern Albania

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TIRANA, July 19 – Albanian police have seized nearly 17 tons of marijuana across the country this week, with the largest haul of 15 tons discovered in the village of Llakatund in

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Zvernec Beach is as pretty as it is deadly. (Photo: Panoramio)

Seas turn deadly for beach goers

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TIRANA, July 17 – It has been a deadly week in Albania’s beaches, with four people drowning in a single day as rip currents and bad weather hit the coast at the

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CEC to press criminal charges on 76 vote counters

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TIRANA, July 19 – Albania’s Central Elections Commission will press criminal charges against 76 vote counters after discrepancies in the number of votes were found during a partial recount after Albania’s general

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Mecca Defense Pact Signals Saudi Arabia’s Bid to Shape a New Security Order

SPAK Brings New Charges Against Former Deputy PM Balluku

Milošević’s Language Returns to Serbia’s Government

Tirana council approves increase in tap water price

CEC finalizes results in record time

Albania will open EU talks soon, Bulgaria says ahead of EU presidency

Youth exchange initiative launched to help promote democratic values

Kadare: ‘I have waved neither the dissident, nor the conformist flag. I wrote normal literature in an abnormal country’

France worried over wave of Albanian asylum seekers

Basha reelected DP leader with 91% of vote as critics cry foul

Tirana mayor selected among world’s top 40 innovative local leaders

Police seize 17 tons of marijuana in southwestern Albania

Seas turn deadly for beach goers

CEC to press criminal charges on 76 vote counters

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