Sources: EPO
Chermen Valiev wins a bronze medal in Men's freestyle 74 kg wrestling, earning Albania its first ever Olympic medal. 2024-08-10
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
Negotiations on the accession of North Macedonia and Albania to the European Union begin in Brussels. 2022-07-19
The Albanian consulate in Kharkiv is destroyed during Russian shelling. No casualties are reported. 2022-03-8
Sali Berisha, former President of Albania, calls for the international community to engage the conflict with greater seriousness. 2020-09-30
Thirteen sick people are taken off the stranded "Diciotti" vessel in Catania, Italy. Albania offers to take in 20 migrants. 2018-08-25
Balkan and European leaders agree to work together implementing a 17-point action plan that includes United Nations-aided accommodation for 100,000 places in reception centers along the route from Greece towards Germany, half in Greece and half in the countries to the north. Some of the other measures: within a week, deploy 400 police officers to Slovenia; step up efforts to return migrants not needing international protection; and, reinforce support of the bloc’s border agency, Frontex', role in securing external borders between Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, and Albania. 2015-10-25
An Albanian hitman serving time in Greece takes six people hostage in an apparent escape attempt. 2013-03-17
Albania's main opposition leader Edi Rama calls for more protests and calls on the international community to mediate in the country's political crisis. 2011-01-25