For four decades, he ruled Albania with an iron fist ... the paranoid, reclusive communist dictator who died in 1985 - which is precisely the point. Hitherto a sprawling, three-storey monument ...

The home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library and the country’s history of isolation.

After being sealed off from the outside world for decades and experiencing a mass exodus, Albania is leaning into its ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

The Albanian prime minister's wife, staunch human rights advocate and economist joined Mika Brzezinski at the Forbes and Know ...

Forty years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, whose four-decade rule over Albania drove it into isolation and poverty, Qasa Alom explores how the country has changed. In the capital Tirana he ...

The landscape of this European country is dotted with concrete military bunkers that offer tourists an insight into its dark ...

European Union enlargement commissioner Marta Kos has hailed Albania’s progress in the membership negotiations and as a ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, ...

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