Communist President Ramiz Alia was heading for a sound defeat today in Albania's first free election. Unofficial returns from the Sunday election also showed Foreign Minister Muhamet Kapliani losing ...

FILE - Then Albanian prime minister and leader Socialist party, Fatos Nano, waves to supporters during the closing rally of the Socialist Party in Albania's capital Tirana on Friday, July 1, 2005. The ...

Albania was an economic ruin when it emerged 12 years ago from the ironfisted rule of communist dictator Enver Hoxha. High rates of poverty and unemployment, a crumbling infrastructure, and corrupt ...

Albania's former Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha lived in a house with 25 refrigerators, 28 color televisions and 19 telephone lines, the Socialist Party newspaper reported Saturday. Under the headline ...