On Oct. 6, Albanian Appeals Court Judge Astrit Kalaja was shot inside the Tirana courtroom where he oversaw a property dispute case, according to the International Commission of Jurists. Kalaja died ...

Serbia and Albania face off in World Cup 2026 qualifying action. Here's everything you need to know ahead of kickoff, including how to watch Serbia vs. Albania and odds. As of Oct. 11, Serbia is ...

The world’s first AI government official is going about as well as anyone could expect. Yesterday, the virtual assistant “Diella” made its “inaugural address” to the Albanian parliament. Maybe ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The world's first AI government minister was appointed last week by Albania's prime minister to oversee decisions on public tenders and make them "100 per cent corruption-free". On Thursday, Diella — ...

In the annals of history, there are figures who rise above the rest, leaving an indelible mark on their nation and the world. Skanderbeg, also known as George Kastrioti, was one such legendary leader ...

TIRANA, (Albania): Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Thursday he had appointed the world’s first AI-generated government minister to oversee public tenders, promising its artificial intelligence ...

PRISTINA - A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an ...

Prosecutors in the North Macedonia city of Kumanovo have opened an investigation into possible hate speech offenses after nationalist and anti-Albanian chants erupted at a basketball match against ...

Former U.S. Senate candidate and immigration attorney Peter Lumaj fled communist Albania decades ago to find freedom and opportunity in America. Now, fresh off Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's ...

Apollonia has been hard at work in preschool, learning things like, as she put it: “numbers and letters.” And next year, she’ll be able to do that learning in both English and Albanian — in the first ...

Albania’s prime minister laid into British asylum policy, arguing in an interview that the country is “in a very dark place” after Brexit. Speaking to The Guardian, center-left PM Edi Rama accused ...