One more tanker took to 20 on Friday the number of vessels waiting in the Black Sea to pass through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on the way to the Mediterranean, the Tribeca shipping agency said, amid talks to disperse the build-up.
Bills, rent and taxes is where almost 70% of household incomes go, with utility bills concerning by far the biggest share of spending.
The leaders of nine Mediterranean and Southern European countries planned to meet Friday in Spain, with the energy crisis triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine likely to top the agenda.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that he will speak to Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Sunday, and he will also speak to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy in order to strengthen the UN-backed Black Sea grain deal.
A Greek police officer appeared in court in northern Greece Friday over the shooting and serious injury of a Roma teenager during a police chase over an allegedly unpaid gas station bill, with protesters gathering outside the courthouse.
The specter of power outages in December will return to Cyprus next week due to a disagreement between the management of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus and its employees.
The EU-Western Balkans summit, held this week in Tirana, sent a positive message to the countries in the region that are largely making progress, as requested by the European Union, but the prospects for their accession remain murky.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu fired off fresh accusations against Greece on Thursday, claiming that it continues to violate “the Lausanne Treaty and the basic human rights” of the Muslim minority in Western Thrace, which Ankara insists, in contravention of said treaty, on describing as Turkish.
Last month, employees at Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, joined a virtual brainstorming session to discuss how to build the next Twitter.
Claiming solidarity with an imprisoned anarchist in Italy, a self-styled anarchist group claimed responsibility for an arson attack on cars at a senior Italian diplomat’s home in Athens earlier this month.