After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

Recent cases of Czech female journalists facing aggressive defamation campaigns for doing their job highlight persistent problems in a milieu still steeped in daily misogyny and sexualisation.

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has proposed using artificial intelligence in public procurement processes to tackle corruption – but experts argue that the root causes should be dealt with ...

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Viennese researchers upset traditionally minded Albanians by pouring cold water on the theory that the Albanian language has its roots in Ancient Illyria.

Twenty-five years since the war ended, relations between most Kosovo Albanians and Serbs remain deeply troubled – but at workplaces and markets, some have discovered common ground.

Albania's Prime Minister, Edi Rama in Tirana, Albania, 28 February 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/MALTON DIBRA Under Rama, Albania is Failing on Almost Every Score Fron Nahzi Washington DC BIRN July 31 ...

The death of Petr Kellner leaves his sprawling PPF empire at a perilous time, as rapid change – driven by new ideas, shifting hierarchies and technology – threatens to challenge the immense ...

From a prison cell in Ecuador, Dritan Rexhepi coordinated a sophisticated ‘transnational crime federation’ of Albanian drug traffickers, controlling the flow of cocaine from South America to ...

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future.

With a large ex-Yugoslav diaspora in Austria, the announcement of a planned monument to the victims of Srebrenica has attracted praise – but also raised questions about what it could achieve.

As Albanian websites spread falsehoods to discredit women in the media, a culture of silence and weak legal protections leave women journalists increasingly vulnerable.