It was the first time an EU country sent rejected migrants to a nation outside the EU that is neither their own nor a country ...

Italy dispatched 40 failed asylum seekers to Albania on Friday to be held until repatriation to their home countries in ...

An Italian navy ship approaches the port , as Italian authorities transfer 40 migrants with no permission to remain in the ...

Italy has donated a naval ship to Albania to help the country increase patrolling of its coastline and intensify its ...

This marks the fourth such deportation to Albania amid the Giorgia Meloni administration's crackdown on illegal immigration ...

It is not clear how long the rejected asylum-seekers may stay in Albania. In Italy they can be detained for up to 18 months pending deportation. Italy’s far-right-led government of Premier ...

Italy’s far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni approved a decree last month that expanded the use of the Albanian fast-track asylum processing centers to include the detention of ...