Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Russia Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin focusing on a grain deal brokered by Turkey and the UN, prospects for talks on ending hostilities in Ukraine, the situation in Syria and growing economic ties between Moscow and Ankara.
Three binding bids have been received in the sale of a majority stake in its northwestern port of Igoumenitsa, the country’s privatisation agency said on Friday.
A 27-year-old businessman accused of the rape of a 19-year-old woman has testified before an investigating magistrate in Hania, Crete. The man, who was arrested on Monday, is accused of raping the woman at a beach bar in Falasarna.
A tourist has died following an accident on a quad bike in Rhodes, the second such accident in as many days on the Dodecanese island. The young woman lost control of the quad and crashed into a wall.
A 49-year-old man who confessed to the murder of his 41-year-old wife on the island of Zakynthos has been remanded in pre-trial custody.
Ioannis Bratakos, the president of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has been appointed general secretary of the prime minister’s office.
Tobacco smuggling remains alive and kicking despite numerous seizures of shipments of thousands of packets of contraband cigarettes and the detection of illegal factories.
The head of Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) stepped down on Friday, citing “oversights in the process of statutory inspections” in his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The Munich-based nonprofit Schwarz Foundation presents the 12th edition of its Samos Young Artists Festival at the island’s Ancient Theater of Pythagorion.
Vassilis Nedos joins Thanos Davelis to look at whether tensions could boil over between Kosovo and Serbia, and what this would mean for the region.