Today: Jun 21, 2026

News - Page 890

Italy helps Albania taking care of lost children

TIRANA, April 16 – Cooperazione Italiane and the Italian districts of Emiglia Romagna, Marche and Puglia offered to Albania two million Euros for a project on favoring policies on children. The money
18 years ago
1 min read

Total reshuffle of mortgage office

TIRANA, April 15 – A complete reshuffle of the government’s mortgage office resulted in 155 officials being fired and 25 of them are being sued. Authorities have pledged to hold a complete
18 years ago
1 min read

Albania officials admit corruption

TIRANA, April 12 – Albania’s former Deputy Transport Minister Nikolin Jaka and several senior officials have pleaded guilty to corruption. Lat September, Jaka was charged with illegally fixing a series of tenders
18 years ago
1 min read

Wanted Albanians arrested in European countries

TIRANA, April 14 – Four Albanians were extradited last week from various European countries. Agim Xhambazi, 46, was arrested by Greek police after an international arrest warrant was issued charging him with
18 years ago
1 min read

Tirana’s Skanderbeg Square to be renovated

TIRANA, April 12 – A two-day competition to display project proposals for the renovation of Tirana’s Skanderbeg Square was held last week. The Belgian studio, 51N4E bvba, was declared the winner of
18 years ago
1 min read

Suspects of drug traffic arrested

TIRANA, April 14 – Two Albanian men were arrested following a successful police operation to prevent smuggling drugs into Tirana. Spartak Zejneli, 37, and Altin Balla, 29, were arrested last weekend and
18 years ago
1 min read

Albanian extradited from U.S.

TIRANA, April 14 – Lorenc Balliu, 32, was extradited from the United States to serve a 16-year prison term for murder. Balliu, a former policeman, who was sentenced by the Korca district
18 years ago
1 min read