Albania

"No danger of Moscow's influence in Balkans"

BERLIN -- Brussels-based analyst Dušan Reljić says there is "no danger of Moscow applying political or military pressure on former Yugoslav republics or Albania."...

In only a week, a simple android game based on the recent tumultuous Albania-Serbia football match, published on Google Play Store on November 11, has received more than 3,500 reviews.

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BELGRADE - Members of 17 special police units from 12 South-East European countries staged a hostage rescue demonstration exercise within the international seminar on the fight against terrorism in 2014in Batajnica on the outskirts of Belgrade on Friday.

U.S. prosecutors sent to Balkans "to help fight terrorism"

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is sending dozens of prosecutors to the Balkans, the Middle East, and northern Africa "to help track down jihadist fighters returning from Syria."

Ilia Kondi, coordinator of the campaign group Center for Justice and Solidarity, said the construction of a power plant on the Lengarica in southern Albania would leave "no water left in the river.

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BELGRADE - German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm said that the recent visit by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is an important achievement and a step in the right direction in the development of bilateral ties, despite, as he said, an unfortunate episode.

BELGRADE - Sensitive issues between Serbia and Albania should be discussed in a more constructive and responsible manner, head of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Serbia Eduard Kukan has told the Belgrade daily Danas.

Abdi Ä°brahim, a leading Turkish pharmaceutical company, signed a strategic licensing agreement on Nov. 13 with Saudi Arabian pharmaceutical distribution company Banaja Holding, as well as a marketing firm.

BELGRADE - The undiplomatic move by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama thwarted the ultimate goal of his visit to Serbia - a major breakthrough in the relations between the two countries, says former Serbian ambassador to Berlin Ivo Viskovic, a professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences.

WASHINGTON - The United States commends Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on the first official visit by an Albanian prime minister to Belgrade in nearly 70 years, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of State.