European defense giant Rheinmetall plans to produce gunpowder and 155-mm artillery shells in Bulgaria under two joint venture agreements with a shared investment of more than €1 billion, the German firm has said.
Before starting their annual runs toward what they hope is an NBA championship, players like Serbia’s Nikola Jokic, Greece’s Giannis Antetokounmpo and Slovenia’s Luka Doncic have another trophy to chase this summer.
The Education Ministry announced that the elementary school on Pserimos, a small island between Kalymnos and Kos, will reopen after 16 years, with just two students, in September. But parents on the remote Aegean island are threatening to leave unless it gets a doctor.
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.