Sources: EPO
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announces plans to create a 27-acre sovereign enclave for the Bektashi Order in Tirana modeled after the Vatican City, which would be called the "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order". 2024-09-21
Iran announces that it will try 104 members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran in absentia, including its leader Maryam Rajavi, who is in exile in Albania. 2023-07-29
The government of Albania suspends diplomatic relations with Iran after a major cyberattack allegedly occurs. Iranian diplomats and embassy staff are told to leave Albania within 24 hours. 2022-09-7
Thousands of students at the University of Tirana in Albania demonstrate against tuition fees. The government appeals for calm. 2018-12-11
At least 13 people – most of them students – are killed and 22 others are injured after a bus plunges 80 m off a cliff in Albania. 2012-05-21
At least 14 people are killed and at least 12 others sustain wounds after a bus plummets off a cliff in Pukë, Albania; a national day of mourning is declared. 2010-07-18