Archbishop of Sinai Damianos has called on Egyptian police to remove dissident monks who were expelled from Saint Catherine’s Monastery on Tuesday but remain outside the gates, attempting to re-enter. The situation remains tense and unresolved.
It was a striking lesson in negotiation on the stage of international diplomacy.
Athens’ water utility EYDAP plans to replace 600-700 kilometers of pipelines over the next four years as part of a half-billion-euro investment program supported by a €250 million loan from the European Investment Bank.
Turkey lowered the tariff for raw sunflower oil imports from 36% to 30% and extended a window for reduced tariff sunflower seed imports, according to a decree published in the Official Gazette on Wednesday.
The government plans to introduce a tenant creditworthiness certificate, aiming to address the problem of unpaid rents and encourage property owners to bring closed homes back to the market.
A growing summer tradition on the small Aegean island of Sikinos, where young people leap into the sea as ferries pull away from the harbor, has drawn the attention of both tourists and authorities.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said for the first time that he recognizes as genocide the mass killings of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians by the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.
A Greek court has ruled illegal a four-hour work stoppage announced by the country’s air traffic controllers for Thursday, ensuring that scheduled flights will proceed as planned.
Rapid developments unfolded Tuesday afternoon at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt, which, according to a communiqué released late in the evening, has now “returned to legality and normalcy.”
A major obstacle to the profitability of Greek, as well as European, banks is about to go away.