Greece celebrates Independence Day with military parade
Children watch the military parade commemorating Greek Independence Day in Athens, Friday.
Children watch the military parade commemorating Greek Independence Day in Athens, Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to virtually deliver an address to the Greek Parliament to rally international support for his country’s fight against Russia’s invasion, reports said Friday.
Landmark EU rules targeting Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft are likely to set a global benchmark and may even force the tech giants to be more innovative, lawyers and experts said.
The European Union and United States unveiled a deal on Friday to supply Europe with more US liquefied natural gas (LNG), as leaders of the European bloc meet to curb their reliance on Russian fossil fuels and deal with an energy crunch.
Turkey’s position on its acquisition of Russian S-400 missile defense systems is unchanged and the matter is a “done deal,” President Tayyip Erdogan was cited as saying on Friday, adding talks with Washington on new F-16 jets and kits were going well.
The Thessaloniki Municipal Authority on Wednesday approved a petition to rename a street in the center of the port city to commemorate a young man who was beaten to death there by hooligans earlier this year.
A woman with her sons, dressing in traditional costumes, walks next to army tanks before the military parade commemorating Greek Independence Day in Athens, Friday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday stressed his government’s efforts to ease the squeeze on households as the war in Ukraine continues to wreak havoc on energy markets, while reiterating his call for a common EU strategy on natural gas procurement.
Supermarket chains are now resorting to rationing the sale of products in their brick-and-mortar stores too, with AB Vassilopoulos setting a maximum limit on the purchase of all brands of corn and sunflower oil and of flour per customer.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Friday that Greece’s thoughts are with the ethnic Greeks in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, as he issued a message to mark Greek Independence Day.