More Vietnamese migrants have reached the UK through the Channel this year than people from any other country. While the UK Government managed to reduce the number of Albanian nationals entering the country via perilous small boat crossings, the number of migrants
The so-called Albanian ‘King of TikTok’, Aleks Visha, openly claims on social media to be operating a UK drug empire, an Express investigation has revealed. A video, obtained by the Express, shows Aleks on an Instagram live stream boasting about the number
Albania’s most popular online celebrity, Kozak Braci, gained a huge following on social media while endorsing UK criminality and promoting ways to illegally travel to Britain, the Express can reveal. Braci, who has over a million fans on TikTok and Instagram, regularly
As travel prices in the UK continue to spiral out of control and the cost of living crisis pushes even modest day trips out of reach, Brits in search of a bargain have come up with a crafty hack; going abroad. It
An Albanian court on Tuesday imprisoned a mayor from the country’s Greek minority on vote-buying charges, a ruling that was expected to raise tensions with neighboring Greece. Greece had called on Albania’s government to stop the process against Dhionisios Alfred Beleri, saying
NATO member Albania has inaugurated a refurbished Soviet-era air base named after Kucove, a town 52 miles south of Tirana. The air base will serve as a modern hub for training and hosting various fighter jet operations. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama
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 the agreement as a possible future template. Italy has
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tirana on Thursday to reinforce Albania’s critical role in U.S. foreign policy amid the most turbulent time in the Balkans in decades. “This is really a stop that is going to focus on the future,
Italy’s lower chamber of parliament approved a government deal with Albania to house migrants during the processing of their asylum requests. The proposal passed 155-115 in the Chamber of Deputies and now advances to the Senate. The initiative, announced by Premier Giorgia
The family of an asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm say a “double tragedy” has hit them as they cannot afford to bring his body back to his native Albania. Leonard Farruku, 27, was found unresponsive on board the accommodation