Twenty-five-year-old French engineer Antoine Avignon first set foot in Albania in 2000. At the time, he was excited to participate in a short-term humanitarian mission. “Before coming to Albania, I ...

TIRANA, AlbaniaTIRANA, Albania — Albania’s first post-communist prime minister, Fatos Nano, was in a hospital and fighting for his life, the current prime minister’s office said Thursday. Nano, 70, ...

“I do not see the same color, vibrancy and life in other countries I visit,” Alice Taylor tells PEOPLE after moving to Albania in 2017 Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A Syrian migrant sleeps inside a forest near Ieropigi village, northern Greece, at the Greek - Albanian border, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. A relatively smooth section of Greece's rugged border with ...

A court in Macedonia on Friday sentenced an eighth ethnic Albanian man to life in prison over a 2015 shootout with police that left 18 people dead, as Kosovo citizens protested against the verdicts.

Bears once held in grim captivity in Albania are adapting to a new life in a sanctuary in Kosovo, encouraging many in Albania to create their own safe haven. Bears in the Pristina sanctuary center.

In 2017, British journalist Alice Taylor arrived in Albania for a short visit, not knowing it would change the course of her life Drawn in by the country’s warmth, culture and unexpected sense of ...