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Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias reiterated Athens’ firm commitment to the European course of the Western Balkans and stressed that it looks forward to the full implementation of the Prespes Agreement Greece signed with North Macedonia in 2018. Speaking during a meeting with visiting Serbian...

The Hellenic defense procurement agency (GDDIA) and the Dutch Defense Materiel Organization (DMO) signed on 27 October 2021 a letter of intent (LOI) for the transfer of two Karel Doorman-class (M-class) frigates and 6 Alkmaar-class (Tripartite-class) mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels. The...

A small cargo ship carrying about 400 mostly Afghan migrants and refugees was towed Saturday to “a safe anchorage” off the Greek island of Kos near the Turkish coast, Greece’s coast guard said. A coast guard spokesman told The Associated Press on customary condition of anonymity that he...

“Greece has always displayed and will always display mature behaviour, a behaviour that accords with international law and the international law of the sea, as well as understanding for the internal political difficulties of the neighbouring country,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on...

In October 1940, Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy, backed by Germany, demanded to invade and occupy Greece requesting Greece to surrender. In the pre-dawn hours of October 28th, 1940, three hours past midnight, the Italian Ambassador to Greece Emmanuel Grazzi, delivered...

France has successfully launched a military satellite on Saturday, designed to allow all of France's armed forces across the globe to communicate swiftly and securely. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Syracuse 4A satellite took off from Kourou, in French Guiana late Saturday, with the mission...

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is expected to co-sign a bilateral cooperation agreement with his British counterpart Liz Truss in London Monday which will cover a wide range of sectors including defence and foreign policy. “The agreement is not purely on defence as the agreements with France...

They agreed that that the project is an important element in the strategic development of the Eastern Mediterranean Energy Corridor, creating an alternative source of energy supplies from the region to the EU and vice versa. A joint declaration after the ninth trilateral summit between...

ISTANBUL, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Embassies of Turkey’s Western allies, including the United States and Germany, called on Monday for the “urgent release” of philanthropist Osman Kavala, in an intervention Ankara described as “unacceptable”. Kavala has been jailed for four years without being...

MOSCOW, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would halt the activities of its diplomatic mission to NATO after the Western military alliance expelled eight Russians saying they were spies. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-shuts-mission-nato-after-staff-expelled-2021-10-18/

The Hellenic Hydrocarbon Management Company (EDEY) is considering incentives for oil companies to proceed with the exploration of hydrocarbons in the areas that had been granted in previous years. According to EDEY estimates, hydrocarbon reserves in Greece are estimated in quantities equivalent...

ATHENS, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Greece and Egypt on Thursday clinched an agreement that sets the stage for an undersea cable that will transmit power produced by renewables from North Africa to Europe, the first such infrastructure in the Mediterranean...

BEIRUT, Oct 14 (Reuters) - At least six Shi'ites were shot dead in Beirut on Thursday, in an attack on protesters who were heading for a demonstration called by Hezbollah to demand the removal of the judge investigating the explosion that ripped through the city's port last year...

The oldest footprints made by pre-humans are more than six million years old, scientists have revealed. Around 50 of the track marks were identified near the village of Trachilos on the western edge of the Greek island of Crete back in 2002. They were found in a type of sedimentary rock...

A Greek prosecutor has charged a 34-year-old Iraqi man for joining a terrorist organization. The suspect was arrested in Athens yesterday, after a joint operation of the Hellenic Counter-Terrorism Unit and the National Intelligence Services (EYP). The suspect entered Greece via the island of...

An Afghan national, codenamed Basim and who allegedly led the terrorist group's military structure, has been detained in Istanbul. The alleged military head of the "Islamic State" (IS) terror group was arrested in Turkey, a police statement said on Sunday. Codenamed Basim, the Afghan national...

The head of the Greek National Defence General Staff (GEETHA), General Konstantinos Floros, spoke about the common values and common interests that determine the framework of defense cooperation between Greece and the U.S. His comments were made during an online event organised by the American...

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