Research simulation by data company Nielsen Gracenote suggests that if their “top 20” qualify, the most likely 12 to make the playoffs are Kazakhstan, Georgia, Greece, Estonia, Israel, Iceland, Ukraine, Turkey, Norway, Finland, Ireland and Albania.
Poland and Spain have pulled their personnel from a Turkish-led military exercise over the presence of troops from the breakaway entity in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, military sources have said. The exercise, named Anatolian Phoenix, is being held from June 6 to 16 in the Turkish interior.
Not much progress is expected on the reform of European Union debt rules at EU finance ministers’ talks on Friday, officials said, as Germany and France remain at odds over whether there should be a minimum annual debt reduction obligatory for all.
Greece “wholeheartedly welcomes the United States’ decision to rejoin UNESCO,” the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a day after the US announced its intention to rejoin UNESCO next month.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country is ready to open a consulate in Shusha, a city that Azerbaijan took from Armenian forces in a war in 2020. Erdogan made the comment during a visit to Azerbaijan at the start of his third term in office following presidential elections last month.
A 21-year-old man told police he was attacked by three men early Sunday morning in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, over a romantic rivalry.
There are some 17,000 properties which are currently available for sale, but with serious irregularities, even though they carry certificates of engineers confirming the opposite.
A prosecutor on Tuesday has ordered an inquiry into the death of a 7-year-old child in a hospital in Thessaloniki after contracting streptococcus A (Strep A).
The Acropolis Museum will celebrate its 14th anniversary on June 20 with an evening of poetry set to music dedicated to its late president, Professor Dimitris Pandermalis.
EU countries on Monday tweaked draft rules aimed at giving workers at online companies such as Uber and Deliveroo employee benefits, ahead of negotiations with EU lawmakers who want more comprehensive rules than both EU governments and the European Commission.