Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LAZARAT, Albania — About 400 Albanian police officers, backed up by two army helicopters, started to move late Wednesday into a major illegal ...

Two projects financed by the World Bank aim to preserve the vernacular architecture of the villages of Albania’s Rivera - though locals doubt that such projects can rebuild a long-lost sense of ...

A World Bank project meant to safeguard Albania’s coastal zones was used to selectively demolish parts of a village in southern Albania and leave many families homeless, according to an internal ...

When Altin Prenga decided to leave Italy after a decade as a migrant there and start a small family-run restaurant in his native village of Fishte, northern Albania, everybody was calling him crazy.

LAZARAT, Albania (AP) — A five-day raid on a lawless southern Albanian village which netted huge amounts of marijuana and heavy weapons shows the government's determination to tackle drug gangs, the ...

NIVICA, Albania (AP) — High in the mountains of southern Albania, a bone-jarring drive along a rough track with switchbacks frequented more by goats than by cars leads to a cluster of small villages ...

LAZARAT Albania (Reuters) - The smoke from burning marijuana plants billowed from a dozen houses on Day Five of Albania's most serious move yet against a southern village, armed to the teeth, that has ...

Albanian police burn seized cannabis in Lazarat village, 230 kilometers (140 miles) south of capital Tirana, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Near-continuous gunfire rang out from the lawless village as ...