TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of ...

“[Albania] was called the North Korea of Europe,” she recalled of her childhood in communism, widely regarded as one of the harshest dictatorships among former communist bloc countri ...

Second, in the violent build-up and aftermath of communism's collapse in the 1990s, 710,000 citizens – 20% of the population – fled Albania from 1989 to 2001 in search of work in other countries.

as well as the raising of the Albanian flag in Viora and Kruje on November 28, 1443. The revolt against the Ottoman Empire began in Albania in January 1912. Albania was successful in August of that ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China said Wednesday it will increase its defense budget 7.2% this year, as it continues its campaign to build a larger, more modern military to assert its territorial ...

Is it possible this country is leaning toward communism? Take a look at what happened this week. I know that any resolutions passed by the United Nations are nothing more than symbolism.

21 trip to Albania was the Holy Father’s encounter with an 85 year-old Franciscan Stigmatine nun, who recalled witnessing to the faith in the midst of the Communist regime. TIRANA, Albania: Among the ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine fighter jet with two pilots on board has lost contact during a night combat assault in support of ground forces battling communist insurgents in a ...

This example of manipulation of gullible foreigners is one of the stories told by David Priestland in his engaging history of communism. A particular strength of the book is the attention it pays to ...

some members were Chinese Communist Party loyalists who accepted the government’s policies, while others believed that their lives were destroyed by them. Chang says that there was “very ...

Nazmi Rrahmani, one of the first Kosovo Albanian writers to have his works published in isolated communist-era Albania, looks back on a career marked by struggles and strange surprises. “You on ...