Ecumenical patriarch seen visiting Australia in October for centennial celebrations
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world’s roughly 300 million Greek Orthodox Christians, is planning to visit Australia later this year.
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.
A court in Istanbul has ordered 15 of 34 people detained on suspicion of spying for Israel be held in prison awaiting trial, Turkey’s justice minister said late Friday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday named a former Colombian foreign minister as his personal envoy to scope out the chances of reviving talks to resolve Cyprus’ ethnic divide, an issue that has defied international diplomacy for nearly five decades.
Arms procurements are expected to be an important part of the agenda of talks between US Secretary Antony Blinken and Greek officials Saturday.