Four women and three girls died on Wednesday when a small boat carrying migrants capsized while arriving to port in the Canary Islands, emergency services in Spain said.
Spain's maritime rescue service, which located the boat some 9.6 kilometers (...)
TIRANA, Albania — The Governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) Yasir Al-Rumayyan called the EU's upcoming sustainability regulations "outrageous" and cited a regulatory decision in Switzerland that impacted PIF's investment in Credit (...)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in the wrong for not attending Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul, and pledged to slap fresh sanctions on Moscow.
The talks are beginning on Friday and mark the first time the (...)
TIRANA — Albania hosted Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) and President of the Association of Muslim Scholars, to deliver the Eid Al-Fitr sermon at the Grand Mosque of Tirana — the largest mosque in (...)
Hundreds of migrants were rescued off the coast off the Canary Islands on Monday.
Most of the 389 migrants were men, but there were also 46 women and five minors according to local authorities.
Five of the rescued boats were heading to Lanzarote, (...)
US President Donald Trump told US government agencies to prepare to "immediately repel, repatriate, and remove" undocumented immigrants as part of a wider effort to fight what he's termed an "invasion" across the southern border.
Trump's order comes (...)
Feel like airport security lines keep getting longer, or that you're booking hotel reservations way further in advance than you used to?
It's true. The UN's World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has just released its 2024 year-in-review data, (...)
At least one person has been killed and several embassies have been damaged in an early morning Russian missile attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
The Kyiv City Military Administration confirmed the death in a post on Telegram, adding that 12 others (...)
Georgia and Turkey on Tuesday received stinging report cards from European Union ministers over their accession process, while Ukraine and Moldova mostly got gold stars.
In enlargement conclusions released as they were meeting in Brussels, EU (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost a confidence vote in parliament, paving the way for its dissolution and fresh national elections.
Scholz gained 207 votes in the 733-seat parliament to his name, nowhere near the 367 majority he needed to hold (...)
The ship, expected to arrive at the port of Shengjin on Thursday morning, left Lampedusa with only eight asylum seekers after judges in Catania and Rome rejected the Meloni government's decree on 'safe countries' last Monday.
The clash between (...)
RIYADH — Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfig Al-Rabiah recently completed a tour of the Balkans. The visit took him to Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro.
The tour aimed to discuss improvements in the Umrah experience for pilgrims from (...)
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the bloc could "draw lessons" from the contested Italian policy of processing migrants offshore in Albania ahead of an EU summit focusing on migration.
She made the remarks in a letter to member (...)
The first asylum seekers from Italy to have their applications processed in Albania arrived via ship to the Albanian port of Shengjin on Wednesday morning.
The 16 men will undergo health screening and identification procedures before being (...)
The Spanish government is considering setting up an emergency reception center for migrants at Ciudad Real airport located south of Madrid.
According to Spain's Minister of Education and Science Pilar Alegria, politicians are exploring "hundreds" of (...)
Sweden's gang violence has escalated to the point where its homicide rate linked to gang warfare is now one of the highest in Europe, with shooters often being minors.
There is an average of one shooting per day for every 10 million inhabitants, and (...)
Albania will open its first chapter of accession talks with the European Union on Tuesday in Luxembourg, as it aims to make headway in its decade-long bid to join the 27-country bloc.
Tuesday's accession conference will be the second held between (...)
Italy, which receives the most migrant arrivals in the European Union, is partially outsourcing the challenge from today, as it opens the first of two planned camps in neighboring Albania.
The centers will be used to house up to 3000 migrants per (...)
The controversial deal, in which the Western Balkan country will host thousands of asylum seekers on Italy's behalf, is expected to last for five years and provides shelter to up to 3,000 migrants picked up by the Italian Coast Guard in (...)
SKOPJE — The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance and the Presidency of the Islamic Union of the Republic of North Macedonia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Sunday in Skopje, the Macedonian capital.
The MoU was signed by (...)
Four Balkan countries suffered simultaneous power cuts lasting several hours on Friday as the region sweltered in a summer heatwave.
Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro and large areas of the Croatian coast were hit by the afternoon blackouts, brought on by (...)
TIRANA —Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tirana, Albania, has announced the conditions for temporarily exempting Saudi citizens from entry visas to Montenegro.
The conditions include the duration of stay should be 30 days or less during the period between (...)
RIYADH — The Albanian government issued a decision on Wednesday to allow Saudi citizens, who are holders of a valid passport, to enter Albanian territory without a visa during the period from March 6, 2024 to December 31, 2024. This was revealed by (...)
TIRANA — In a recent meeting with a delegation from the Federation of Saudi Chambers, led by Hassan Al-Huwaizi, Albanian President Bajram Begaj extended an invitation to Saudi businessmen to invest in Albania, assuring personal guarantees for their (...)
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, pleaded for more ammunition to repel Russian advances at a summit he co-hosted in Albania on Wednesday.
Zelensky said that increasing the supply of armaments, and especially ammunition, was paramount for (...)
