Speaker apologises over document honouring dictator Hoxha

TIRANA, Oct. 9 (TemA) – Parliament Speaker Niko Peleshi apologised on Wednesday after an official document that appeared to honour former communist leader Enver Hoxha sparked outrage in Albania. The document, circulated earlier this week, listed...

Ryanair passengers warned over new rules from November

Rules for Ryanair passengers will change in November(Image: Europa Press 2025) Ryanair chiefs are advising passengers to familiarise themselves with their new boarding rules, set to commence in November. The low-cost carrier is moving away from...

India should keep buying Russian oil, but not from Rosneft and Lukoil

There are good reasons for India to continue sourcing oil from Russia, notwithstanding the latest American sanctions on Russia’s oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft. India has a stake in Russia retaining its great power status, for which Moscow needs to...

"We’ve now reached a grafting capacity of one million plants per week”

As Greece's southernmost island prepares for the winter cucumber season, the propagation lines at AGRIS Horticulture are in full swing. From its Crete facility in Ierapetra, the company is producing hundreds of thousands of young plants that will...

Iron-Chinned Fabio Wardley TKOs Joseph Parker in a London Humdinger

In a riveting slugfest, Fabio Wardley walked through fire to emerge victorious, stopping former world heavyweight title-holder Joseph Parker in the 11th round. Wardley was 19-0 (18 KOs) heading in, but with no amateur experience (his portal to the...

Cursed Mountains and Deathly Lakes: When Nature Is Explained By Myth

The drive to explain perplexing things in nature, and the desire to understand earthshaking events of unfathomable scale are timeless human impulses. Found in cultures around the world, geomyths attempt to account for anomalous natural phenomena...

10 overlooked European destinations to visit in 2026

Europe’s major cities may steal the spotlight, but beyond the tourist hotspots lie towns and regions quietly preserving their charm. With overtourism prompting new travel restrictions and rising costs in popular capitals, 2026 is the year to...

Celebrities: Death in September 2025

Dhimitër Anagnosti, 89, Albanian film director (The Return of the Dead Army, Përralle Nga e Kaluara) and politician, minister of culture (1992–1994) and MP (1991–1996). Jimmy Bone, 75, Scottish football player (Partick Thistle, St Mirren) and...

Multimillionaire Scott Galloway: how to save teenage boys

During last month’s far-right Unite the Kingdom march led by Tommy Robinson in central London, Professor Scott Galloway got a nasty surprise. The multimillionaire entrepreneur, academic and podcaster grew up in California but moved to our capital...

Feminist Diplomacy: Accelerating Mobilization

How can we unite, act, and resist together to defend the rights of women, girls, and gender equality? This is the central question of the 4th Ministerial Conference on Feminist Diplomacy, organized in France on October 22 and 23, 2025. This...

Dealt in the desert: Operation Royal Flush and Arizona’s gambling past

PHOENIX – As dawn broke on May 12, 1992, teams of FBI agents and U.S. marshals in fleets of trucks rolled out into the desert toward Native American reservations across the state, under orders from U.S. Attorney Linda Akers to confiscate illegal...

Texas Cheat ’em? How mob lured high rollers into poker trap with former NBA players

NEW YORK - The squat, brick building on Lexington Avenue in New York City’s Manhattan borough looked like any other on the block, with no hint of the elaborate trap within. In the summer of 2023, a man – we will call him, as prosecutors do, John...

Among Counties with Weakest Budget Management

The quality of institutions and governance has a significant impact on the efficiency of public spending. Countries with strong institutions, low levels of corruption, and better rule of law generally achieve better results in the efficiency of...

1 European Commission Supports 4iG Group's Digital Infrastructure and Subsea Cable Initiatives in the Western Balkans

Joint declaration signed today in Tirana at the EU-Western Balkans Investment Forum § At the EU–Western Balkans Investment Forum held in Tirana, 4iG Group signed a Joint Declaration with the European Commission and GÉANT, the pan-European...

Ruling party proposes station-based vote counting

TIRANA, Oct. 7 (TemA) — Albania’s ruling Socialists proposed a return to counting ballots at polling stations, reversing the practice of sending them to zonal centers, to speed results and tighten security with modern technology. Legal Affairs...

Progressive except for Kosovo

What does solidarity truly mean – especially in contexts where ethnonationalism is deeply entrenched? This question has guided much of my work as a community organizer, creating inter-ethnic spaces for Balkan diasporas in the UK. As someone with...

Thursday Headlines: Oct. 23, 2025

Here's a quick look at our top stories for Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025: Watch the latest weather forecast Colder weather on track for Sunday TOP HEADLINES: Butte parents demand answers after son's fentanyl overdose death amid city's addiction crisis...

Sports betting guru ‘Sugar’ caught with one-way ticket to Colombia in bizarre prelude to explosive NBA gambling case

A sports-betting guru ensnared in the explosive NBA gambling scandal tried to flee the country in January with $10,000 — and a one-way ticket to Colombia — as the feds closed in on a separate case, court papers reveal. Shane “Sugar” Hennen, 40,...

The precarious migrant worker

Hsiao-Hung Pai • October 15, 2025 Hsiao-Hung Pai argues that this new book on the working lives of migrant workers is much more than a piece of academic research and should be read as a call to arms When I first saw the title of this book, I...

Aurelien – Forever Again…Why the time is always Now.

Of all the advances in our understanding of the human mind over the last century or so, none is more fundamental than the discovery of the Unconscious and the slow realisation of how it functions, and yet none has had so little effect on how we...