A House committee in the Republic of Cyprus is blocking three appointments on a casino commission until after the new cabinet takes shape on March 1, with members raising conflict of interest concerns and the outgoing government insisting it should be allowed to fill the vacant positions now.
Former prime minister Kostas Karamanlis, 66, announced Tuesday that he won’t run in the next elections.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed a cautious optimism that Greek-Turkish relations could improve in an interview with Greek TV channel Mega Tuesday.
Incidents of teacher intimidation by students at Greek universities are, unfortunately, not isolated. This and other delinquent behavior that adversely is always allowed to pass without consequences.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that he is departing Greece after “a productive day of meetings,” in a tweet.
A number of blue chips slid on Tuesday, following the hefty gains of previous days, but without having a major impact on the benchmark at Athinon Avenue, which posted only minimal losses thanks to the indomitable banks index as well as the support from the market’s biggest stock in terms of capitalization, Coca-Cola HBC.
A Thessaloniki appeals court has jailed a 37-year-old woman for 10 years for her role defrauding a friend of €130,000, after convincing her, through a complex scam, that she knew an “American doctor” who wanted to marry her.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has thanked representatives of the Greek disaster response teams and ambulance service teams for their recent work in earthquake-affected areas in Turkey.
Survivors of the earthquake that jolted Turkey and Syria 15 days ago, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving hundreds of thousands of others homeless, dealt with more trauma and loss Tuesday after another deadly quake and aftershocks rocked the region.