Tsipras confident ‘political change has already started’
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras declared that “political change has already started,” during a rally at the main square in Peristeri, western Athens.
Covid-19: Weekly infection numbers increase by 18%
The week from July 4-10 saw 13,623 new coronavirus cases per million people, an 18-percent increase on the previous week, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Tuesday, in the first of its new weekly reports that replace its daily bulletins.
State Department: ‘sovereignty and territorial integrity of Greece not in question’
“The sovereignty and territorial integrity of Greece is not in question. Our position on this issue is clear,” a State Department spokesperson said, following the display at the weekend of a map depicting large Greek islands as Turkish by Devlet Bahceli, an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Skrekas briefs Tsunis on energy contingency plans
Energy and Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas briefed US Ambassador George Tsunis on Tuesday on the government’s contingency plan in the event of Russia cutting off its supply of natural gas.
An obsession with elections
At the end of 2014 things were pretty much as described by the vice-president of the former SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government coalition, Yannis Dragasakis, in his recent article “The truth about 2015” (in Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper, published on July 9.).
Τurning a crisis into an opportunity
It was nearly 10 years ago when I flew to Athens together with US President Bill Clinton and a group of friends, united for a common cause. At the time, Greece was in crisis and a newly elected government was in power.
Cars hit wild boars, 2 people killed in road pileup
A three-car pileup caused by a pack of wild boars in northern Greece killed two people and left four more hospitalized, police said Tuesday.
Greek FM visits Odessa
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Tuesday visited the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, which has become a strategic flashpoint in Russia’s invasion of the former Soviet republic, where he met with local officials and members of the Greek diaspora.
500-year-old icon looted from divided Cyprus repatriated
A 500-year-old Orthodox icon that was looted from a church in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus has been returned to the island.