The government has designated the mountainous Prespes region in northwestern Greece as an “Untrodden Mountain,” a move the Ministry of Environment and Energy announced Friday is designed to safeguard environmental protection and preserve one of the Balkans’ most sensitive ecosystems.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met Friday with a delegation from the US Congress led by Senator Jerry Moran, reaffirming close bilateral relations and discussing cooperation in energy, defense and investment, officials said.
Washington sources say the agreement will significantly boost the production of commercial ships in the US.
A new poll released Thursday by Metron Analysis for Mega TV shows the governing New Democracy maintaining a clear lead, though its support has edged down slightly from January.
Turkish authorities have detained a veteran correspondent of German state-backed international broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Ankara, accusing him of “disseminating misleading information” and “insulting the president.”
Turkish authorities detained 32 suspects, including executives of football clubs, on Friday as part of a widening investigation into alleged match-fixing and illegal betting in the country’s professional leagues, the prosecutor’s office in Istanbul said.
Tom Ellis, John Psaropoulos, Gregg Roman, and Endy Zemenides join Thanos Davelis this week as we dig into Greece’s decision to be part of the Gaza Stabilization Force and the Board of Peace, deepening Greek-Israeli defense ties, and the challenges and opportunities for the 3+1 partnership between Greece, Cyprus, Israel, and the US.
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Greece is advancing a plan to transfer migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected and who cannot be immediately returned to their countries of origin to facilities in Africa, in coordination with Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Denmark.
Two men who went missing while attempting to reach the Gerontovrachos peak (2,389 meters) on Mt Parnassos (Parnassus) in central Greece were found late Thursday night in good condition, authorities said.