US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed the Gaza conflict and European security priorities, including Sweden’s NATO integration, during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Saturday.
A warning message from the 112 emergency number was sent to mobile phones on Saturday in Epirus, Western Greece, and the Ionian regions regarding an upcoming storm, expected to hit in the coming hours.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated, “Greece-US bilateral relations are at their best,” during his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Hania, Crete on Saturday.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world’s roughly 300 million Greek Orthodox Christians, is planning to visit Australia later this year.
In a transformative decade for the energy sector spanning from 2012 to 2022, employment in green energy has seen a remarkable surge of nearly 90%, with the current workforce standing at 13.7 million, research shows.
A shipwreck with 21 migrants occurred off the coast of the Rhodes, Dodecanese Islands in Turkish territorial waters in the early hours of Saturday.
The meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, in Istanbul on Saturday lasted approximately two hours.
Greeks have celebrated Epiphany with blessing of the waters ceremonies across the country. Good weather helped bring out the crowds for the outdoor celebrations, with swimmers competing against each other to grasp a floating cross thrown by priests into seas, rivers or lakes.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was expected to meet the leaders of Greece and Turkey on Saturday at the start of a week-long trip aimed at tamping down tensions that have spiked across the Middle East since Israel’s war with Hamas began in October.
Police in Thessaloniki have arrested a 39-year-old male non-national in relation to the fatal stabbing of 49-year-old foreign man in Lagkadikia, a town outside the city, on Wednesday.