Thousands of Greeks marched through central Athens on Thursday to mark the anniversary of a violently quashed student uprising in 1973 that helped topple the military junta which then ruled the country.
Libya on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Athens and the foreign ministry summoned the Greek chargé d’affaire in Tripoli to protest the Greek foreign minister’s decision to cancel his meeting with the head of the country’s Presidency Council.
The foreign minister of ethnically divided Cyprus offered a bleak outlook Thursday for resuming stalled peace talks any time soon even though a senior United Nations official affirmed the commitment of the world body’s chief to remain engaged in resolving one of Europe’s most intractable conflicts.
Greece is the ninth most favored destination for US citizens studying abroad, although the numbers are well below pre-pandemic levels.
A 32-year-old Turkish national was arrested early Wednesday for trafficking migrants, police announced on Thursday.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias met on Thursday Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi on Thursday to discuss “the need for Libya’s stabilisation” and the promotion of peace and stability in the wider region, state-run news agency AMNA reported.
Thousands of police have been deployed in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki on Thursday for commemorative marches to mark the anniversary of a 1973 student uprising that was brutally crushed by the military dictatorship then ruling Greece.
Eurocontrol data show the continued recovery of Greek air transport, as local airports had 7.7% more flights last month than a year earlier, led by Athens Airport, and by Aegean Airlines, which has the lion’s share in the Greek market.
Brinkmanship over the Aegean is something the Turkish military particularly likes and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan desperately needs the army, says Sinan Ciddi, a Turkish-born, British-educated associate professor of national security studies at the Marine Corps University.
Week after week, supermarket chains are competing to become the retailer with the most improved “household basket,” by employing tricks such as increasing private label products, replacing large packages with smaller and therefore cheaper ones, and with price reductions that in many cases are limited to just 1 cent.