Albania

Italian navy vessel Cassiopea has embarked 49 migrants during its patrols in the Mediterranean and is transferring them to new processing centers in Albania, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

A constitutional battle has erupted in Rome as judges shot down a key element of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centre scheme and sent migrants back to Italy. Judges in Rome ordered the return of 12 migrants, ten

Giorgia Meloni’s conservative government has begun sending illegal migrants from Italy to offshore processing centres in Albania, with the maiden ship setting sail from the island of Lampedusa on Monday.

An Albanian burglar who snuck back into the UK after being deported has won the right to remain after he successfully lodged a legal challenge under the the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Popstar Bebe Rexha has used social media to share an allegation she had a verbal exchange that amounted to a “hate crime” with a Lufthansa airport employee that left her hysterically crying.

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron hailed progress in a U.K.-Albania joint effort to cut illegal migration.

Albania has installed a “sophisticated” network of cameras along its border with Kosovo, supplied by the British government.

Ukraine´s president pleaded Wednesday for more ammunition to repel Russian advances as he co-hosted a summit with Albania’s government.

An Albanian court ordered house arrest for former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition party to the governing socialists.

Albanian prosecutors asked lawmakers to strip former Prime Minister Berisha of his parliamentary immunity amid corruption investigations.

Albanian opposition MPs tried to block a vote on the budget by creating chair blockades, setting off smoke bombs, and lighting a small fire.

Lawmakers from Albania’s center-right opposition Democratic Party disrupted a session of the legislature on Thursday by tossing firecrackers, building chair barricades, and physically confronting members of the governing Socialist Party. 

Competition for the lucrative human trafficking trade between ethnically-based gangs operating in northern France is driving rising violence.

Texas Congressman Lance Gooden (R) introduced legislation condemning Tehran for “reprisals” against protesters, while calling to protect Iranian political exiles in Albania, and backing the Iranian struggle for a democratic and secular government.

Over half of Albanian illegal migrants were granted asylum last year despite the fact that they are coming from a safe European nation.

The UK government is now paying Albanian prisoners to comply with deportations, a report on Wednesday has claimed.

Britain’s Home Secretary has said boat migrants who may be removed from Britain and resettled in Rwanda should think of the arrangements as a “blessing”, infuriating anti-borders activists and politicians.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albania’s prime minister on Thursday denied that he had bribed or given preferential treatment to a former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official who has been indicted in the United States.

Hunter Biden appears to be connected to former FBI official Charles McGonigal, who was recently arrested for taking secret cash payments from a former Albanian intelligence officer, among other serious violations.

Even if Britain were to stop illegal Albanian migrants from entering the UK, there would be an “infinite” number of migrants looking to take their place, government officials have reportedly lamented.

Plans aimed at protecting Britain’s borders could put human rights at risk, former Prime Minister Theresa May has warned.

A Border Force officer arrested by anti-corruption cops may have been outed as being an illegal himself, according to a papers claims.

The war in Ukraine has put European Union expansion at the top of the agenda as officials from the Western Balkans and EU leaders gather.

About 20 per cent of lone “child” Albanian migrants have gone missing from one English town, statistics have revealed.

Judges have granted a convicted Albanian murderer who arrived illegally by boat in Britain permission to stay and pursue an asylum claim.

The Prime Minister of Albania has said Britain should look to its own “failed policies on borders and on crime” for the root cause of the Channel boat migrants crisis, instead of “scapegoating” his countrymen in particular.

The boat migrant crisis in the English Channel has escalated to the point that up to two per cent of “the entire adult male population of Albania” have now landed in Britain, according to the top border official for crossings. 

The UK has been accepting asylum claims from foreign migrants at a far higher rate than countries within the EU, a factor which may be contributing the massive migrant crisis currently being experienced by the state.

A group of Albanians are accused of kidnapping and torturing a man in an attempt to extract a £400,000 (~$452,000) ransom from his family overseas.

Despite initial claims to the contrary, Albanian migrants who illegally enter Britain on small boats will not be sent home if they claim asylum, the UK Home Office has now admitted.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Wednesday that his government’s National Cyber Security Center has determined hackers linked to the Iranian regime were “almost certainly” behind a massive cyberattack against the Albanian government in July. Albania severed diplomatic ties with Iran over the incident, enraging Tehran.

Priti Patel, Britain’s Home Secretary, has claimed that Albanians are coming to the UK illegally in the hopes of joining the country’s “criminal underworld”.

Open borders Ireland is being used by Albanian human traffickers as a back door to ship illegal migrants into Britain.

The number of illegal boat migrants who have made it to Britain this year surpassed 25,000 on Saturday after a further 915 arrivals landed in England.

Police from corruption-riddled Albania are to be stationed in Britain to help deport illegal boat migrants from the Muslim-majority country.

Violent Albanian criminals are illegally returning to the UK after being deported as boat migrants from the country surge.