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Olympics row deepens as 35 countries demand ban for Russia and Belarus
Greece, France and Japan are understood to be among a minority of countries opposed to the absolute exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Turkey: Greek couple found dead beneath rubble of home
A Greek couple missing since the devasting earthquake in Turkey on Tuesday been found dead beneath the rubble of their apartment building, according to public broadcaster ERT.
Society threatened by thousands of foreclosures, says Tsipras
Greek society is threatened by hundreds of thousands of foreclosures “as a result of choices of the Mitsotakis government,” SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said in a televised address broadcast on Friday.
Zografou dorms rescue project
A listed building, designed in 1975 by the architects Konstantinos Fines and Konstantinos Papaioannou, exponents of Greek modernism in public architecture, is getting a new lease on life after plans for its renovation were announced on Thursday.
Dendias: Societies and people are closer than leaders think
The recent catastrophic earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have shown “that societies and people are much closer than their leaderships sometimes think,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has said.
Cyprus probes washed up dead whales, earthquake link possible
A number of whales have washed up dead on the northern shores of Cyprus, authorities said on Friday, possibly affected by the massive earthquakes in neighboring Turkey and Syria this week.
Erdogan says earthquake response should have been faster
The response of search and rescue teams to the massive earthquakes in the country’s south was not as fast as the government wanted, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Fire extinguished at Turkey’s Iskenderun port
A fire at Turkey’s Iskenderun port has been extinguished and maritime operations have resumed in the region, Turkey’s maritime authority said on Friday, four days after the blaze broke out after following earthquakes that struck the country.
Cavusoglu thanks PM and Greek people for aid
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has thanked Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Greek people for the humanitarian aid that Greece has sent to the quake-stricken people of Turkey.