Gay rights activists held a series of public events this week in Tirana, pushing for greater acceptance of the lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual lifestyle.

Questions are growing over the diploma that the son of the Italy's right-wing Northern League leader, Umberto Bossi, received from an Albanian university.   

The government approved on Wednesday a bill, giving unprecedented access to its territory to a EULEX team of prosecutors, investigating allegations that the KLA harvested organs of Serb war prisoners.

The New Democratic Spirit, a splinter group from the ruling Democrats headed by former Deputy Prime Minister Gazmend Oketa, presented itself on Monday, promising to advance Albania’s politically neglected middle class.

An explosion at an army munitions disposal site in southern Albania killed a villager on Sunday after he had ventured in to collect scrap metal from exploded shells. 

Albanian President Bamir Topi, meeting his Macedonian host, President Gjorge Ivanov, called for restraint in Macedonia after the murder of five men fuelled ethnic tensions.

The Albanian opposition has called on Prime Minister Sali Berisha to explain why the government for nearly a year blocked an electricity interconnection line with Kosovo, amid allegations of undue influence by Serb energy traders.