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Albania’s Parliament approved a deal for the country to hold thousands of asylum seekers for Italy in a vote on Thursday, despite protests from opposition lawmakers and human rights groups.
Italy’s deal with Albania to process irregular migrants is “very, very different” to the scrapped Rwanda plan, Yvette Cooper has said. The Home Secretary drew a distinction between Rome’s ...
SHENGJIN, Albania (Reuters) -A ship carrying the first group of migrants to be processed in Albania under a deal with Italy arrived in the port of Shengjin on Wednesday morning, setting in motion ...
Albania has agreed to host two migrant processing centers on its territory that will be fully run by Italy, under a deal that worries many human rights activists. The European Union, however, sees ...
Former prime minister Sali Berisha is charged with corruption for allegedly abusing his office to help his son-in-law privatize public land for a real-estate project in Tirana. [12] The All Afghan Women's Summit is held in Tirana, during which more than 130 Afghan women gather to protest the crackdown on women's rights in Afghanistan by the ...
Organized crime became widespread in Albania during the early 90s, after the fall of communism. blackmail, intimidation and racketeering became commonplace. [1] A 2003 report by the Office of the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe remarks that "Albania is the paradise for the illegal trade.
Albania and the United States formally established diplomatic relations in 1922, a decade after the Albanian Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire. German and Italian occupation of Albania during World War II severed cooperation, and the establishment of an Albanian communist government in 1946 kept diplomacy paused for most of the 20th century.
Under the five-year deal announced last month, Albania would shelter up to 36,000 migrants for a year, or about 3,000 a month, who try to reach Italy without proper documentation, ...