World News | Italy Resumes Migrant Transfers to Albania as Navy Vessel Heads to Centres with 49 People

Rome, Jan 26 (AP) Italian navy vessel Cassiopea has embarked 49 migrants during its patrols in the Mediterranean and is transferring them to new processing centres in Albania, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. This is the third attempt …

Italy resumes migrant transfers to Albania as navy vessel heads to centers with 49 people

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Italy resumes migrant transfers to Albania detention centres

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's navy on Sunday was taking 49 migrants it picked up in international waters to detention facilities in Albania, the interior ministry said, resuming a plan to curb sea arrivals mired in legal controversy. Giorgia Meloni's …

Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church in Albania, dies at 95

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday. He was 95. Anastasios, the Archbishop of Tirana, Durres, and All …

Albania boosts solar energy to meet 2030 export goal

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says the country is ramping up efforts to diversify its energy sources, aiming to become a net energy exporter by 2030. Rama spotlighted a private investment in Erseka Solar Park, a renewable energy project producing 50 …

Albania to create Vatican-style Sufi state in its capital

TIRANA: Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Saturday. If created, the enclave for the …

When Anastasios Spoke about Albania: There Was no other Atheist State, Hoxha Wanted to Be Original

Anastasios had referred to the difficulties and challenges he faced when he took office as Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania , in an interview he gave to APE-MPE in June 2017, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his election. The …

Archbishop Anastasios of Albania Dies Age 95

Archbishop Anastasios of Albania passed away today, after many days of hospitalization at the "Evangelismos" hospital, where he had been rushed from Tirana. It all started shortly before his death in 2024, when he was admitted to the "Hygeia …

Take some time to discover Albania

We had the incredible op­portunity recently to visit a country that many people have not even thought of as a tourist destination — Albania. Off the beaten path and until the 1990s closed to the outside world, Albania is a Balkan country that is every bit …