Yesterday evening in Greece a frightening collision between two trains, 32 dead and 85 injured, some of which are very serious. Unfortunately, the budget is still provisional. The collision occurred between a freight train and a passenger train traveling between Athens and Thessaloniki. The Greek firefighters explained to reporters that three [...]
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EU High Representative Josep Borrell and Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarcic will be in Ankara today and tomorrow for high-level meetings "with the Turkish authorities and to discuss the escalation in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, humanitarian consequences for the population, and the situation of Syrian refugees in Turkey. It [...]
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UNSMIL in a note: “deep concern over current efforts to stop or compromise oil production in Libya. This move would have devastating consequences first and foremost for the Libyan people who depend on the free flow of oil for their well-being. It will also have terrible knock-on effects for the already deteriorated economic and financial situation [...]
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Defensepoint.com demonstrated via the free FlightRadar 24 app (monitors all airline flights with transponders on) that Turkey is using civilian flights to transport war material and personnel to Libya. Recent reports show, in fact, an unusual air traffic from Constantinople to Libya, flying over the Greek airspace and inside the Athens FIR. [...]
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Italy lost Libya in 2011 when Gaddafi was overthrown by force at the hands of Sarkozy's France. France has never digested our relevance, our privileged lane in Libya. The final push for Italy is the signing, on November 27, of the Turkish-Libyan treaty on the jurisdictional areas of the Mediterranean of [...]
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Apparently Italy, but also Europe, are less and less influential in Libya. For months, General Kalifa Haftar's troops have had support on the ground from Russian contractors of the private company Wagner Group (former Russian military), very close to the Kremlin. It is no coincidence that Haftar's militias have become more [...]
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Human trafficking in Riccione - extradited from Greece Irfan Ali accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration, aggravated by competition and killing of a corpse Returns to Italy today escorted by the SCIP - Criminalpol International Police Cooperation Service, Irfan ALI, 33-year-old Pakistani , arrested in Greece on 30 October last and recipient of [...]
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74 victims so far ascertained, 550 injured of which 16 seriously children, 1500 houses destroyed. These are the numbers of the serious fire that in the last 24 hours destroyed the large pine forests around Athens, Greece. Numbers that, according to the mayor of Rafina, are destined to rise. According to the […]
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Greek security was undermined and Greece expelled two Russian diplomats and refused to credit two others. Greece had not joined with the 30 countries that had expelled or refused to accredit Russian diplomats in March, in solidarity with the UK. The expulsions had come in response to the attempted murder [...]
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Macedonia and Greece have signed the agreement on changing the name of the former Yugoslav country to the Republic of North Macedonia. The two foreign ministers, the Macedonian Nikola Dimitrov and the Greek Nikos Kotzias, signed the document of understanding in a ceremony on the Greek side of Lake Prespa, in the presence of premier Zoran Zaev and [...]
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The Greek government has approved an agreement with the United States for the modernization of more than half of its F-16 fleet, for a total of 1,2 billion euros. The expenses will serve to improve the capacity of 85 American fighters supplied to the Greek Air Force, bringing them closer in technology to the most advanced F-35s. Athens will have to pay [...]
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According to the Nova agency, the Athens government has filed an appeal against the Greek justice decision on granting asylum to one of the eight Turkish coup leaders who fled to Greece after the failed July 2016 coup in Turkey. This is what we learn from the Athens press, after yesterday's decision [...]
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Government sources quoted today by the "Ana-Mpa" news agency reported that Alexis Tsipras, Greek Prime Minister, said during yesterday's meeting at the European Council that the European Union needs an agenda for a social Europe which counterbalances the budget pact, underlining how the "European pillar" of social rights must be implemented with a view to [...]
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According to what was reported yesterday by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias during the joint press conference with Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian, visiting Athens, the recent visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a positive outcome with a view to "thawing" relations between the two countries. Erdogan's visit was a [...]
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Fofi Gennimata, president of the Greek Socialist Party (Pasok), was elected leader of the new Greek center-left party with about 60% of the votes, against 40% of the challenger, the Pasok secretary, Nikos Androulakis. As reported by the "Ana-Mpa" news agency, over 160 citizens registered for the first [...]
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Dimitri Papadimitriou, Greek Economy Minister, has agreed with the US Ambassador to Athens, Geoffrey Pyatt, the establishment of a Greek-American investment committee, whose purpose will be to examine the investment projects planned by both parties and will meet twice a month. The decision, as reported by the news agency "Ana-Mpa", is [...]
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