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Albanian prime minister says TikTok ban was not a ‘rushed reaction to a single incident’

By Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Albania to close TikTok for a year blaming it for promoting violence among children

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Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks to the media following meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Allied leaders from the Western Balkan countries, in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Albania’s prime minister calls for more NATO troops in neighboring Kosovo following ethnic violence

By Konstantin Testorides - Associated Press

Democratic lawmakers throw a flare during a parliament session in Tirana, Albania, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Albanian opposition lawmakers disrupted the Parliament's session again on Monday to protest against what they say, is increasingly authoritarian rule by the governing Socialists. (AP Photo/Florian Abazi)

The Albanian opposition disrupts a Parliament vote on the budget with flares and piled-up chairs

By Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, shake hands after the signing of a memorandum of understanding on migrant management centres during a meeting in Rome, Italy, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Albania agrees to temporarily house migrants who reach Italy while their asylum bids are processed

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis looks on during the arrival of Moldova's President Maia Sandu before their meeting at Maximou mansion in Athens Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Albanian leader makes conciliatory comments after not being invited by Greece to regional meeting

By Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Albanian President Ilir Meta speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tirana, Albania, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Albania’s president waded deep into the country's parliamentary election campaign Wednesday, accusing the left-wing government of running a “kleptocratic regime” and bungling its pandemic response. In an interview with The Associated Press, Ilir Meta also said he would step down if Prime Minister Edi Rama's Socialists — who are leading the main opposition conservatives in opinion polls — win Sunday's vote. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Albania prime minister set on firing the country’s president

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 21, 2021 file photo, Albanian President Ilir Meta speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tirana, Albania. Albania’s president has accused the U.S. ambassador of intervening in the small European country’s internal affairs by supporting its prime minister in an upcoming parliamentary election. Meta spoke harshly about Ambassador Yuri Kim during a television talk show on Friday, April 23, 2021. While the show was airing, Kim sent a text message to Meta and also tweeted about Sunday’s election. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina, File)

Albania’s Socialists seek to impeach nation’s president

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Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama waves to his supporters during a rally in Tirana, Albania, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Albania's left-wing Socialist Party has secured a third consecutive mandate in a parliamentary election, winning a majority of seats in parliament, Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Albania’s Socialists win election, gain 3rd straight mandate

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Albania’s president harshly attacks PM ahead of Sunday polls

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Tirana, Albania, on Tuesday April 20, 2021. Albania holds parliamentary elections on Sunday, April 25. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Prime minister hopes to make Albania a ‘tourism champion’

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Albanian communist-era landmark reinvented as youth center

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama receives the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Tirana, Albania, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Rama was among the first to take the COVID-19 vaccine which the country has received from an undisclosed European Union member country. The Prime Minister said he was &quot;not authorized&quot; to say which EU country had provided 975 vaccines. (AP Photo)

Albania carries out 1st vaccinations with donated doses

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

A protester holding a road sign makes his way with others during a protest rally in Tirana, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. Demonstrators in a northern Albanian city damaged the left-wing governing Socialist Party's offices and injured a police officer Saturday, authorities said, as part of ongoing protests this week after a fatal shooting by police enforcing a coronavirus curfew. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Albanians hold a peaceful protest over police shooting

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Albanian protesters run away from teargas during a protest rally in Tirana, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. Demonstrators in a northern Albanian city damaged the left-wing governing Socialist Party's offices and injured a police officer Saturday, authorities said, as part of ongoing protests this week after a fatal shooting by police enforcing a coronavirus curfew. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Albanians rally for 5th day after police kill man in curfew

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Protesters throw stones to riot police during clashes in Tirana, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Albanian demonstrators clashed in the third day on Friday protesting for the death of a 25-year-old man shot dead by a police officer. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Albanian police easily disperse smaller anti-police protest

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

A Christmas tree is on fire near the Prime's Minister office during clashes in Tirana, Albania , on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Clashes have broken out in Tirana during a protest by hundreds of Albanians demanding the interior minister's resignation over the fatal police shooting of a 25-year-old man who had breached a coronavirus-linked curfew. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Albania: New protest over police shooting, minister resigns

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Protester walk among smoke by tear gas during clashes outside the Prime's Minister office in Tirana, Albania , on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Clashes have broken out in Tirana during a protest by hundreds of Albanians demanding the interior minister's resignation over the fatal police shooting of a 25-year-old man who had breached a coronavirus-linked curfew. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Albania: Clashes during protest over fatal police shooting

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Albanian Prime Minister's office, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama sits at a hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, 26, 2020, with Albanian children as part of an operation to take them back home to Albania from Al Hawl, northern Syria. A few hundred Albanian men are known to have joined terror groups in Syria and Iraq in the early 2010s, and now many of them are dead and their family members are stuck in Syria camps, but will be repatriated via Beirut to Albania. (Albanian Prime Minister's office via AP)

Albania says repatriation of 5 from Syria a ‘great step’

By FADI TAWIL and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Albanian Prime Minister's office, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama sits at a hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, 26, 2020, with Albanian children as part of an operation to take them back home to Albania from Al Hawl, northern Syria. A few hundred Albanian men are known to have joined terror groups in Syria and Iraq in the early 2010s, and now many of them are dead and their family members are stuck in Syria camps, but will be repatriated via Beirut to Albania. (Albanian Prime Minister's office via AP)

Albania repatriating 5 family members of fighters in Syria

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press