The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee was poised on Tuesday to resume deliberations on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan linked the Nordic country’s admission on US approval of Turkey’s request to purchase F-16 fighter jets.
The past year confirmed in many ways that we are living in an era of great change and insecurity. We saw that the certainties of past decades no long apply, that the way our country functions is not good enough for us to meet the challenges of the time.
Police on the Dodecanese island of Kos arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of smuggling migrants on a speedboat on Christmas Day. When a coast guard patrol boat pursued the vessel after spotting it off the northeast of the island, the skipper refused to stop the speedboat and attempted to ram the patrol boat.
Temperatures will reach up to 21 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, with the unseasonal warm spell forecast to run until Friday, the Meteo weather service has said. Conditions will be generally clear, with localized rain expected mainly in some island areas.
In a poll by Metron Analysis published on December 22, there are some findings that are striking and, more importantly, highlight a core truth that may prove crucial in the future.
Life has been good to me! Besides many intangibles I own a house, a car, and many other important but less valuable objects. What I do not own is my wife and daughters.
Celebrate the transition to the new year with the soulful tunes of Greek singer Nefeli Fasouli at Ypsilon (5 Edessis) in Thessaloniki.
With the real estate market due for a correction after significant price hikes, according to real estate experts and the Bank of Greece, there is a market segment, winter holiday homes, which never rebounded from the financial crisis.
We have known for years now that an experiment of historic proportions is under way in China. Its focus is on finding a stable equilibrium between governance by one political party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), without elections, separation of powers etc, and the free market economy.
There will be no musical festivities. No tree-lighting ceremony. No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at Christmas. With the war in the Gaza Strip raging, this is a city in mourning.