ALBANIA:  But Where Are the Differences
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TIRANA, Jul 4 (IPS) - People across the Balkans have much in common,  forget the conflicts of the recent or distant past, and the  efforts of politicians to convince them how "different"  or "distinctive" they are.
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Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis and his Albanian counterpart, Kastriot Islami, yesterday discussed bilateral relations, the Greek minority in Albania and Albanian immigrants in Greece.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo could soon be Europe's newest independent state, but the Albanian majority in Serbia's breakaway province still has to decide on a name, a flag and an anthem.
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KAKOME BAY, Albania  - On a midsummer night 20  years ago, a tall Frenchman beached his small sailing boat near  Kakome Bay on the forbidding coast of communist Albania, then  the world's most isolated country.
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ARANDA, Albania - Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a saltwater bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast.
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New NATO member Bulgaria and Balkan neighbours Macedonia and Albania will build a joint air defence system the ministers of defence and army chiefs of staff of the three countries agreed at a meeting in Sofia, ...
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TIRANA, Jul 19 (IPS) - Albania cannot hope to become a major tourist  destination unless it solves its waste management problem. Seeing  this, authorities are wasting no more time in taking action.
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Liechtenstein is on a roll. Andorra finally has won a game. And make no mistake, Albania looks like a threat.
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Albania is next on Bush's itinerary, and Europe's poorest country offers a far friendlier welcome than its neighbors
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TIRANA, Albania, June 10 -- Evidence of Albania's love for the United States lined the road leading into this capital Sunday. U.S. and Albanian flags flew from lampposts. People wearing cardboard Uncle Sam hats milled in the streets. Oversize billboards and banners heralded the American president's...
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TIRANA, Albania -- Prime Minister Sali Berisha announced on Monday that he made changes in the Democratic Party -led coalition government, in a bid to boost the pace of reforms.Comment
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TIRANA, Jun 21 (IPS) - -When psychiatrist turned political leader Ylli    Pango took over as minister for tourism, besides holding other    portfolios, Albania was always going to open welcoming gates to    visitors from the world. And it has, with an almost fourfold  jump in   tourism over the last four years.
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In Albania, which has not wavered in its support for American policies, President Bush can do no wrong.
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Sending a letter or finding a friend's house in Albania is not that simple as much of the country doesn't have street names thanks to petty bickering between intractable politicians.
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BELGRADE, Feb 5 (IPS) - The long awaited United Nations proposal on the  status of the southern Serbian province Kosovo takes it towards  independence, but not all the way.
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"I am ready for early elections"  Albanian parliament failed in its third attempt to elect a new president Saturday night, keeping open the prospects of early general elections in the tiny western Balkan country. via China View
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Hamid Karzai has been cruising to victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential elections, but the returns so far have underscored the ethnic fault lines that often divide the country.