Foreign tourists to Albania in the first four months of 2026 increased to 2.57 million, from 2.45 million in the same period of the previous year, the statistical office, INSTAT, said on Monday.

What an adventure!’ The Albanians shut out of a legal route into Britain are lured by conmen who tell them not to bother with ...

The Council of Europe’s newly released 2025 annual penal statistics on prison populations (SPACE I) , show that many European ...

With a population over 600,000, Montenegro is described as a "small and beautiful" Europe hidden gem, soaking up between 240 ...

On Tuesday 19 May 2026, the Council of Europe released its 2025 Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations (SPACE... }} ...

Also in this newsletter: Pope Leo weighs in on the AI.race, and Belarus's opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya slams ...

Endangered Egyptian vultures, with their vivid yellow face and white plumes, would usually be nesting across the Balkans in their dozens by April.

El Salvador packs volcanoes, surfing, and colorful small towns into a compact footprint.

World War 1 is often told through the trenches of France and the great powers of Europe. But in the Balkans, Serbia stood at the center of the crisis that set the war in motion and became one of the ...

Some countries spend millions trying to address the crisis, yet prisons continue to suffer from poor hygiene, inadequate ...