Women from impoverished parts of Albania are being lured into work as day labourers on illegal cannabis plantations; if caught, they face paying a high price for what their lawyers say is effectively ...

Golaj is a village in northwestern Albania with a population today of around 4,000 and just a ten-minute drive from the town of Has. In recent years the community has seen most of its young people ...

HE faked his own death to cover up a bloody trail of destruction, while his ruthless monsters rubbed shoulders with Albanian ...

"The Albanian mafia would call me and say: 'We want to send 500kg of drugs.' If you don't accept, they kill you." César (not his real name) is a member of the Latin Kings, a criminal drug gang in ...

(Reuters) - Albanian police arrested 27 people and seized narcotics and weapons on Sunday during a crackdown on gangs smuggling heroin into Germany, authorities said. More than 1,500 officers raided ...

Eight individuals were arrested in Brussels linked to a plot to assassinate the city's chief prosecutor. The arrests stem ...

The government has cracked down hard on cannabis in recent years, sparking instances of armed resistance from peasant growers. But despite repeated declarations that the country is “marijuana-free,” ...