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Albania bunkers down with ideal habitats for bats
- Europe
- December 6, 2020, 16:57
When the members of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania agreed in 1971 to build a vast network of concrete bunkers across the coun(...)

Ireland returns 23 people denied asylum to Albania and Georgia
- Crime & Law
- December 4, 2019, 18:23
A group of 23 Albanian and Georgian nationals has been deported in an Irish-led operation involving the EU’s border agency, the Department of Justice (...)

Earthquake in Albania leaves at least 21 dead and 600 injured
- Europe
- November 26, 2019, 07:30
At least 21 people are dead and 600 injured after an earthquake struck Albania, flattening buildings, tearing open roads and prompting countries acros(...)

Woman who fled Albania wins appeal over protection refusal
- High Court
- November 18, 2019, 16:44
A woman who claims she fled Albania because of a stalker has won a High Court challenge to a refusal to grant her and her three children international(...)

Mies van der Rohe prize: My time on the road as a judge visiting the finalists
- Art & Design
- May 4, 2019, 05:00
If there’s a recurrent theme in this year’s Mies van der Rohe European Prize for Contemporary Architecture, it is surely imaginative renovation and tr(...)

Welcome to my place . . . Tirana, Albania
- Abroad
- January 27, 2019, 06:00
Elizabeth Gowing has been living in Tirana for more than five years. She moved there because of her partner’s job and now runs a monthly environmental(...)

Several dead as ‘Beast from the East’ hits Europe
- Europe
- February 28, 2018
Persistent snow and freezing conditions from a Siberian cold snap has badly affected transport and caused a handful of deaths across a swathe of Europ(...)

Myanmar dismisses ceasefire declared by Muslim Rohingya insurgents
- Asia-Pacific
- September 10, 2017, 19:04
Myanmar on Sunday rebuffed a ceasefire declared by Muslim Rohingya insurgents to enable the delivery of aid to thousands of displaced people in the vi(...)

‘Very serious’ decline in number becoming priests in Ireland
- Religion & Beliefs
- March 17, 2017, 16:17
Papal nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown has expressed alarm at the lack of vocations in Ireland, and at the age profile of existing priests. “We’ve a (...)

Balkan arms fears grow amid major security alerts
- Europe
- November 20, 2016, 17:32
Serbia is urgently checking state arms depots after scores of guns were found to be missing from a military warehouse, fuelling concern over Balkan w(...)