Turkey said on Tuesday it would not allow two minehunter ships donated to Ukraine by Britain to transit its waters en route to the Black Sea since it would violate an international pact concerning wartime passage of the straits.
Police detected a total of 24 migrants who entered Greece illegally from the Turkish border in two separate incidents between New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. A non-national migrant smuggler was arrested at the Kipoi border crossing after they found 18 migrants in a trailer attached to the truck he was driving.
Ten people, including eight Greeks, were hospitalized after the bus they were travelling in collided with a truck in northern Bulgaria. The Romanian driver of the bus and another Romanian national are among the injured, which include six men and four women, ranging in age from 18 to 63. Their injuries are not considered to…
Britain and Cyprus have sent 87 tonnes of aid to Gaza via Egypt, the two countries have said, with Cypriot officials saying they had successfully tested a screening mechanism for cargoes offering an alternative route for badly needed supplies.
Police made over a thousand arrests across the country over the four-day period in the run up to and including New Year’s Day. From December 29 to January 1, officers conducted checks on over 70,000 people and over 53,500 vehicles, a police statement said.
A 17-year-old student who suffered an allergic shock during a school trip to Crete is brain dead, a local news website reported on Tuesday.
Turkish police have detained 33 people suspected of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service and of targeting foreigners living in Turkey, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has said.
Eurozone factories ended 2023 on the back foot, with activity contracting in December for an 18th straight month, according to a survey which gave scant signs of any imminent strong bounce back in an economy likely in recession.
Albanian police have said they have dismantled a crime ring based in the city of Korce that defrauded Greek citizens by withdrawing thousands of euros from their bank accounts. Around 5,000 people in Greece were defrauded by the gang, which was led by a 30-year-old man from Tirana and a 29-year-old man from Korce.
Greece offered its condolences to the government of Japan and its people for the deadly earthquake that hit the country on New Year’s Day.