Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview that aired Sunday that he has no qualms about buying a Russian defense system despite condemnation from the United States and its other NATO allies.
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Greek health authorities announced 1,100 new cases of the coronavirus for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m. Sunday, as well as 24 deaths.
The dilemma between paying a monthly mortgage loan installment or rent that had preoccupied hundreds of thousands of households during the 1990s and 2000s is, albeit timidly, re-emerging.
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Vasilis Leventis, a politician and former MP, is in a critical condition at an Athens hospital suffering from Covid-19.
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Delta Air Lines flight 148 from Atlanta has landed safely at Athens International Airport.
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Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades met in New York City Saturday.
Bishop Ieronymos of Larissa has received plaudits for his humorous response to anti-vaxxers protesting against his agreement with health authorities to install mobile vaccination units outside his church on Sundays.
The Hellenic Dental Federation has issued clarifications regarding new rules governing dentist visits introduced by the Health Ministry.
Greek authorities announced 1,853 new cases of coronavirus and 16 fatalities in the past 24 hours Saturday.
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Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias concluded a busy series of bilateral relations for the High Level Week of the 76th UN General Assembly late on Friday (Athens time).
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Greek authorities are racing against time to shore up areas devastated by the summer’s wildfires in Athens, Evia and the Peloponnese so that the blazes are not followed by equally devastating floods and landslides in the fall and winter.
A prosecutor in Rodopi, northern Greece, arraigned two suspects on Saturday on suspicion of smuggling gas into Greece from Bulgaria for sale on the black market.
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Greece’s return to growth and the reforms is has already carried out were the key points stressed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during contacts in New York last week.
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Citizens’ Protection Minister Panagiotis Theodorikakos on Saturday ordered an investigation into websites and social media accounts encouraging vaccination denial and insubordination with health safety measures.
Paris has reportedly sent messages of support to Athens over Turkey’s harassment of the Nautical Geo research ship of French interests which is conducting exploratory activities for a possible route of the EastMed pipeline on behalf of Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
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A top European Union legal adviser said Thursday that software installed in Volkswagen cars to alter the amount of pollutants coming out of their exhaust pipes in hot or cold weather and at high altitude doesn’t conform to the 27-nation bloc’s laws laws unless it prevents dangerous sudden engine damage.
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he was “pessimistic” on finding a solution on the Cyprus issue, noting Turkey’s continued violation of the island-nation’s sovereignty through its exploratory drilling and Ankara’s support for a two-state solution, during his address at the 76th UN General Assembly in New York on Friday.
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Turkey’s new push for separate Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot states on ethnically divided Cyprus shows a desire to control the whole of the east Mediterranean island nation, the Cypriot Cypriot president charged Friday.
With the aim of eventually freeing up thousands of officers for policing duties, the Citizen Protection Ministry is making it a priority to digitize a series of bureaucratic services available to the public at local precincts.
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Archbishop Elpidophoros of America held a 30-minute meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday.
Introducing stiffer sentencing for serious crimes, the government officially announced sweeping changes to the country’s penal code on Friday.
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A rally to call for more action on climate change was held in Athens on Friday, as part of the Fridays for Future movement.
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