Albania News

In 1994, when Agim Loci was 23, his friend tried to rape a girl.

The girl's two brothers thwarted the attack at the last moment. But the matter did not stop there: The family wanted revenge. But Mr. Loci made a highly unusual decision: He took his friend, tied him up, and made him stand in a field before the girl's entire family.

"I said, 'If you want to kill him, kill him. But then his family will come and kill one of you,' " Loci recalls. "Of course, nobody was going to kill him then."

When the Army last year awarded a contract worth up to nearly $300 million to a tiny Miami Beach munitions dealer to supply ammunition to Afghanistan's security forces, it overlooked a very checkered past.

A European human rights watchdog says it will investigate claims that ethnic Albanians killed Serbs and sold their organs at the end of the war in Kosovo.

WASHINGTON : A military attache has told congressional investigators that the American ambassador to Albania endorsed a plan by that country's defense minister to remove evidence of illegal Chinese origins on ...

Although the people in Gerdec, Albania, have begun to rebuild their homes and move on, the March 15th blast in the town is still fresh in everyone's minds.

A Bountiful man is among four people indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a scheme that supplied the U.S. military with prohibited Chinese-made ammunition.

Legal Newswire - R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Sharon Woods, Director, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Anthony V. ...

TIRANA, Albania -- The country needs to bridge the gap in its human rights record and offer more protection to women and children, ethnic minorities and the disabled, according to a new report by the Council of ...

Albania has sold state-owned oil refiner ARMO to US and Swiss investors for 128 million , the government said Wednesday.

Depicted is a molecular representation of a four iron- four sulfur cluster in which the sulfur is shown in yellow and iron in green.

Police boost patrols as thousands take to the roads Traffic police yesterday intensified patrols of the country's national road network as thousands of city-dwellers head off to their country retreats for the ...

Police say an Albanian fisherman was shot and wounded by Montenegrin border guards Tuesday in Albanian territorial waters of Shkodra Lake.

By Benet Koleka Tirana - Albanian artist Saimir Strati has hammered tens of thousands of nails into a wooden board over the past 24 days to create a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and the world's biggest nail ...

The RS prime minister attended an economic forum in Russia. Also in diplomatic news: a permanent representation of the EC opened in Montenegro, and Albanian President Bamir Topi met with Cypriot Foreign ...

Albanian bloggers reflect on an ongoing safety problem. By Klodjan Seferaj for Southeast European Times in Tirana - ' 06/06/08 The mine in Bulqiza has been the site of several fatal accidents.

TIRANA, Albania -- Lawmakers will vote in two weeks on whether to lift the immunity of former Defence Minister Fatmir Mediu.

Mission trips to Albania, Costa Rica and Nicaragua have given Hamilton County resident Stephanie Gamboa, 29, a global perspective.

As the summer tourism season begins, the government has decided to move families displaced by blasts in the village of Gerdec from their temporary shelters to a state vacation resort in Durres.

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski casts his ballot a polling station in Skopje.

An Albanian television heartthrob has been attacked in Rome in the latest episode of racial hatred sweeping Italy.