TIRANA Albanian villagers prevented Council of Europe (CoE) officials from conducting an investigation into the trafficking of human organs, Albanian media reported. Former Hague chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte mentioned in her book published last year that the home of the Katuci family and the village of Rripe in north …

MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced on Tuesday he was holding off sending Russia’s new ambassador to Ukraine over Kiev’s anti-Russian policies. “I would like to inform you that over Ukraine’s anti-Russian policies I have made the decision to delay sending our new ambassador to Ukraine,” Medvedev said in a …

PRIŠTINA The Kosovo Albanian government has passed a decision for the purchase of buildings in Washington, London, Paris and Brussels, to house its embassies. According to a statement released in Priština, the government adopted a request of its foreign ministry to start with buying only four buildings due to a …