Albania on Wednesday announced a series of laws that may bring about far- reaching liberalization in this most restrictive of European communist countries. They include a measure providing for freedom ...

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

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.

Refugees heading for Western Europe could start using a route from Albania to Italy previously used by tens of thousands of Albanians after the Communist regime collapsed in the 1990s. Albanian ...