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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cancellation last month of a visit to Albania could have been related to a possible plot against him, Albanian media reported Thursday, in the aftermath of the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador and another diplomat from the country, reportedly over a plot to target the Israeli national soccer team.

Police have welcomed the jailing of a drugs gang behind an “awful explosion” of Class A drugs in Whitechapel as an “incredible result” which will “severely disrupt the supply”.

Six men have been found guilty of trying to illegally smuggle Albanian migrants across the English Channel in speedboats.

A Kosovo court has sentenced nine Albanians, eight to jail, for planning a foiled attack against the Israeli soccer team during a 2016 qualifying World Cup match in neighboring Albania.

Albanian gangsters linked to South American cartels are taking over the illegal drugs scene in Britain.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albanian police say an Albanian businessman accused of involvement in the trafficking of 613 kilograms (1,350 pounds) of cocaine earlier seized in the country has been arrested in Germany. A statement Friday said that Arber Cekaj,

An illegal immigrant from Albania who used a fake ID to get a kidney transplant, costing the National Health Service (NHS) more than £72,000, has been imprisoned.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The European Union said Monday it has reached an agreement to assist Albania in border management and also deploy teams there to respond to potential flows of migrants.

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Albanian criminals who pretended to be Kosovan refugees have been allowed to stay in the UK after a Supreme Court judgement revealed a “loophole in the law”.

Two men in Kosovo pleaded guilty Wednesday to planning attacks against Israelis during a soccer match in Albania last year.

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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Fighting organized crime remains Albania’s biggest and most difficult challenge, the U.S. Ambassador to the country said Monday.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Police in Albania say that they have increased security in the country following terror threats and attacks in Europe.

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The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria has killed a plotter of the thwarted terror attack at last year’s Israel-Albania soccer match in Albania, a US official said Thursday.

Criminal Albanian gangs ready to resort to “serious violence” have “considerable control” over the drug trafficking market in the UK, a National Crime Agency (NCA) report has revealed. The gangs, which use London as their primary hub but are established

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s left-wing Socialist Party has secured a second mandate in a general election, winning a majority of seats in parliament, nearly complete results showed Tuesday.

Almost 50 per cent of newly-arrived young Austrian Muslim migrants hold anti-Semitic views, a new study published by the University of Teacher Education in Vienna reveals.

Albanian Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama, a George Soros ally and a critic of President Trump, got a crucial political boost Thursday after U.S. diplomats helped end an opposition boycott of upcoming elections by warning the U.S. would likely accept election results even if no other party participated.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian court on Wednesday released a journalist who had been accused of making calls for violence against a European Union diplomat, after prosecutors decided he had committed no crime. Police had arrested Kastriot Myftaraj, 51,

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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbian officials warned on Friday of another war in the Balkans if Albanians try to form a joint state with Kosovo in the war-weary European region and the West does not reject such a plan. The angry

TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albanian police say they have increased security measures over the Easter holidays.

The leader of the free-market opposition in Albania told Breitbart News Friday that democracy in his country is in great danger, as the left-wing prime minister Edi Rama has allowed corruption and crime to flourish there.

A former Albanian asylum seeker who first entered Britain under a false identity has been convicted of murdering an elderly couple in their rural cottage.

An Albanian murderer deported from the UK in 2009 after a lengthy legal battle is back in the country, running a £40,000 business and making no effort to conceal his identity, according to reports.

Twice as many Albanians have been caught as stowaways at British ports than any other nationality, government figures have revealed.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police said Thurday they had arrested a female teacher for making statements supportive of the Islamic State extremist group.

Intelligence services in Italy believe that the country faces an imminent threat from Islamic State fighters based in Albania, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica.

According to an Italian intelligence report quoted by the UK Daily Mail, former NATO soldier-turned Islamic State (ISIS) commander Lavdrim Muhaxheri has fled the Syrian battlefield and returned to Europe with up to 400 of his savage troops in tow, posing as refugees.

Police in Kosovo said on Wednesday they had arrested 19 people in the past 10 days on suspicion of having links with Islamic State and planning to carry out attacks in Kosovo and in neighboring Albania.

The Home Office has set up a team to check the real ages of “child” migrants from Albania amid fears that their carers, and schools, are being put in danger.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police say they have seized three metric tons of cannabis and destroyed some 13,000 plants in a northern district. A statement Friday said that a day earlier in Mat, 90 kilometers (55 miles) north of

On Friday, the remaining 280 members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) — also known as the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) — who were stationed in Camp Liberty (Hurriya) in Iraq were relocated to Albania, officially closing the camp which was a place of refuge for the dissidents against the Iranian regime since the 1980s.