Firefighters continued to battle scattered hotspots in the Corinthia region on Wednesday, a day after a major wildfire forced evacuations and burned large areas of forest in the mountainous Peloponnese.
A bear wandering into the courtyard of a secondary school in the village of Nestorio, in northern Greece’s Kastoria region, sparked alarm among residents, local media reported on Wednesday.
Greece is expected to raise concerns over North Macedonia’s failure to fully implement the 2018 Prespa accord during talks in Athens on Wednesday between Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis and North Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Timcho Mucunski.
Turkey and Britain have signed a memorandum of understanding to allow Ankara to be a user of Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, in a big step toward securing the procurement of the jets over which Turkey has been negotiating for years.
Firefighters battled through the night to contain a large wildfire that ripped through a virgin forest in the mountainous area of Feneos, in Greece’s Corinthia region, authorities said on Wednesday.
The German government has cleared the way for the delivery of 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Turkey following a positive decision by the federal security council, the Spiegel news magazine reported on Wednesday.
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) are calling on all members of the US Congress to take coordinated action to prevent the lifting of CAATSA sanctions and block Turkey’s reentry into the F35 program.
In an exclusive interview with Kathimerini, NATO Deputy Secretary-General Radmila Shekerinska underscores that NATO does not underestimate the broader security risks – particularly on its southern flank – addressing the concerns raised by member-states such as Greece and Italy. She notes that Secretary-General Mark Rutte has already appointed a special representative for the Southern Neighborhood.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to a government amendment announced on Monday that will abolish commissions and fees charged by banks and ATM service providers, in a TikTok posting on Tuesday.
A fugitive Moldovan oligarch implicated in a $1 billion bank fraud and other illicit schemes, who is now detained in Greece, is widely known in his country as the “puppeteer.”