Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana. At the UN General Assembly last week, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the ...

A robust new study investigating brain activity patterns in schizophrenia patients and their siblings is suggesting a specific brain “signature” could detect the condition in subjects before clinical ...

Behind Edi Rama’s announcement of a Vatican-type ‘microstate’ for the Bektashi movement in Tirana, some critics of his rule see a bid to distract attention from domestic scandals and win more ...

A group of Czech citizens has declared a new state, the Free Republic of Liberland, in a tiny 6-square-kilometer territory along the Danube River between Croatia and the Republic of Serbia. The ...

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama wants to transform the Bektashi World Centre into a place of moderation, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. (AFP pic) Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim ...

Nation-building is arduous work. Microstate-building, maybe less so. But don't tell that to the libertarian architect of a seven-year campaign to further subdivide the tempestuous Balkans by turning a ...

A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to fund climate action, but is so far struggling to attract new citizens to the low-lying, largely barren island. Pacific microstate Nauru, one of ...

Liechtenstein is set for its first female prime minister after Brigitte Haas' conservative Fatherland Union won a general ...

In 1960, San Marino—a microstate in the middle of Italy, not far from the Adriatic Sea—made its Olympic debut in Rome. Nine citizens competed: all men, mostly shooters and cyclists. None won a medal, ...