Summer memories burn
Despite the incredible political developments in the United States and the start of the Paris Olympic Games, the most important news this week was that the two hottest days in history were recorded.
Despite the incredible political developments in the United States and the start of the Paris Olympic Games, the most important news this week was that the two hottest days in history were recorded.
Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to break down how the 40 hour crisis last week in the Aegean between Greece and Turkey evolved, and to look at the broader message this incident sends about stability in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Asylum seekers have been stranded in a UN controlled buffer zone splitting Cyprus for weeks, caught up in the conflict which divides the island and a government getting increasingly tough on migration.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday he was “deeply saddened” to hear that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh had been “martyred,” adding that he had become a symbol of Palestinian resistance.
The United States is working to ensure that the new government in North Macedonia adheres to the Prespa Agreement between Athens and Skopje, James O’Brien, the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, has said.
North Macedonia said it was seeking further assistance from the European Union Tuesday to combat wildfires that continue to burn out of control in heatwave temperatures and have crossed the southern border into Greece.
Turkey condemned on Wednesday the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the Iranian capital, saying the attack aimed to spread the war in Gaza on a regional level.
PPC Group has announced the construction of a new 140-megawatt wind farm in the area of Deleni in Vaslui province, eastern Romania.
The decision on Tuesday by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court to shelve the complaints about the wiretapping case related to the National Intelligence Service (EYP), or any other state agency for that matter, caused a storm of reactions and acrimony between the government and opposition parties, who denounced it as a cover-up.
The key elements of the new cadastre bill were presented by Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou and Deputy Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis during the cabinet meeting on Tuesday.