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Stefanos Tsitsipas Climbs to Top Five After Washington Open Win (video)
Stefanos Tsitsipas rolled into the world’s top five Friday at the ATP Washington Open after winning against No. 10 seed Benoit Paire of France 7-5, 6-0.
The Greek champion put in a performance worthy of his top seed status on...
Diplomacy
Greek Foreign Minister Meets With Secretary Pompeo in Washington
Deepening the strategic collaboration between Athens and Washington was the focus of the first meeting Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias held with his US counterpart Mike Pompeo at the State Department on Wednesday.
Dendias invited Pompeo to visit Athens...
Cyprus
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias to Visit Washington, Meet With Mike Pompeo
The new Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will go to Washington DC on Wednesday to meet with his counterpart in the US State Department Mike Pompeo and other senior American officials.
The visit was not originally on the official schedule,...
Diplomacy
Russian Embassy to Greece Blasts Washington in Series of Tweets
In an unprecedented incident, the Russian Embassy to Athens blasted the US Senator Bob Menendez, Washington and the American strategy in the eastern Mediterranean in a series of tweets on Holy Thursday.
The embassy published four different tweets in the...
Diplomacy
Athens and Washington Plan To Increase US Military Presence in Greece
Greece and the United States are exploring ways to expand the presence of the US military and American weapons in Greece, according to Greek media reports on Monday.
The two sides are attempting to consolidate the excellent relations between the...
Diplomacy
Moscow Accuses Washington of "Unjustifiable Interference" in FYROM's Domestic Affairs
The Russian Foreign Ministry has some tough words for American Assistant Secretary of State John Sullivan, the ministry accused the United States of anti-Russian rhetoric.
Sullivan visited Skopje on December 18 and said Russia tried to intervene in the domestic...
Greece
Athens-Washington Discuss New U.S. Army Base on Greece's Karpathos
Greece and the United States are in deliberations over the establishment of a U.S. Army base on Karpathos island in the Dodecanese.
According to an ANT1 television report, discussions are at an advanced stage. The U.S. discusses the use of...
Greece
Greece's Tsitsipas Cruises Into Washington, DC Semifinals (video)
Stefanos Tsitsipas cruised into the Citi Open semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 dismissal of third-seeded David Goffin.
The 19 year-old will play defending champion Alexander Zverev on Saturday for a spot in Sunday's final.
It has been a good few months...
Economy
Greek Debt-Relief Talks Shift to Washington
Brussels and Athens are now turning their attention to Washington, where critical discussions on Greek debt relief will be held on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank spring meeting.
According to Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA)'s sources, the Europeans...
Diplomacy
Washington: Greece, FYROM Can Decide a Name Themselves
The United States will support a solution to the name dispute which is reached by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and Greece, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Wes Mitchell, has said.
The U.S. official made the...
Diplomacy
Washington Urges Greece, Turkey to Calm Down
The U.S. State Department has encouraged Greece and Turkey to "de-escalate" current tensions in the Aegean, after a Turkish coast guard vessel rammed a Greek patrol boat on Monday night near the Imia islets.
"Turkey and Greece have long-established diplomatic...
Greece
Tsipras to Meet Trump in Washington in October-Gov't Sources
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will pay a visit to the United States in the second half of October for a meeting U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, following an official invitation, government sources said on Friday.
The Greek...
Economy
All Eyes Turned to Washington for World Bank Group and IMF Spring Meetings
Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Alternate Finance Minister George Chouliarakis on Thursday will depart for Washington where the 2017 spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund will take place. The Greek ministers hope that...
Greece
Kammenos and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to Meet This Week in Washington DC
This coming Thursday or Friday Greece's Defense Minister, Panos Kammenos, will hold a meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Washington, DC.
The meeting not only coincides with the national Greek holiday of March 25, but also...
Greece
Kotzias to Visit Washington D.C. Next Week for Meeting with Secretary of State Tillerson
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will be in Washington, D.C. on Monday and Tuesday (March 13-14), for a series of meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Advisor Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, representatives of the U.S. administration,...