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Putin Wins Another Controversial Election to Rule Russia Until 2030

Vladimir Putin won by a landslide in Russia accumulating more than 87 percent of the vote in a Presidential election where no credible opposition candidate was allowed to stand. The result means Putin will rule until at least 2030, when...

Greece-Egypt Sign High Level Cooperation Agreement

Greece and Egypt signed an agreement on the establishment of the High-Level Cooperation Council in Cairo on Sunday. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi made joint statements after signing the agreement. The Greece-Egypt bilateral agreement was...

Leak of Greek Diaspora Emails Rocks Government

The scandal caused by the leak of the Greek diaspora's emails has rocked the conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. On Friday, a deputy minister resigned, a governing New Democracy official was fired, and an MEP withdrew from the elections for...

SYRIZA Leader Stefanos Kasselakis Begins Military Service

Stefanos Kasselakis, the leader of Greek main opposition SYRIZA, is starting his brief military service in an army barrack in Thebes on Friday. He is due to receive basic military training for 20 days. Military service is mandatory for all...

Near Misses Show Problems in Greek Railways a Year After Tempe Disaster

The Greek railways safety issue surfaced once again when a suburban train in Athens ran a red light on Saturday, putting hundreds of passengers in danger a year after the Tempe disaster. In addition to Saturday's near miss, railway authorities...

US House Passes Bill Potentially Banning TikTok Nationwide

In a landslide vote a bill has been passed by the US House of Representatives which gives ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, 165 days to divest from the social media platform before it is legally barred from app stores...

Biden-Trump Rematch Is Official as They Clinch Nominations

US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have both passed the delegate thresholds to clinch their parties' nominations for the election in November. Both Biden and Trump won primary elections in Georgia, Mississippi, and Washington state on Tuesday....

Humanitarian Aid Ship From Cyprus to Gaza Waiting to Sail

A ship loaded with tons of food for Gaza remained docked in a Cyprus port on Sunday as preparations unfolded for the launch of a yet untested maritime aid route to the enclave. The European Union, United States, United Arab...

Will Turkey’s Enormous Istanbul Canal Project Move Ahead?

An ambitious "Suez Canal" project in Turkey, spearheaded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and known as the Istanbul Canal, aims to transform the city into a global trade hub, with an estimated cost of $9.2 billion. In 2021, the Turkish...

President Biden Blasts Donald Trump in State of the Union Address

President Joe Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address on Thursday, taking repeated swipes at Donald Trump -without mentioning him by name -and covering the broad themes of his re-election campaign. Biden used the term "my predecessor" to...

Sweden Officially Becomes a Member of NATO

Sweden, a historically neutral country, has officially become the thirty-second member of NATO and the second country to join the Western military alliance since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Stockholm's ratification process was finally completed in Washington today, on...

‘No One Will Intimidate Us’ Mitsotakis Says After Missile Scare in Ukraine

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent a message of support to Ukraine a day after the Russian attack in Odessa, close to where the prime minister and the Greek delegation were, before the meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky. "No one will intimidate...

Russian Missiles Hit Odessa, Ukraine as Greek PM Mitsotakis Visits

The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his advisors were met by Russian missiles as they arrived in Odessa, Ukraine for an official visit. Mitsotakis was about to meet the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky when an explosion hit the...

Biden and Trump Head for a Rematch after Super Tuesday Wins

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have swept the state primaries that were held on Super Tuesday making a White House rematch between them even more likely. With voting now closed across the US, Biden is believed to have won...

Greece Probes Data Leak of Diaspora Voter Email Addresses

Greece’s Interior Ministry said it will conduct an internal inquiry on the suspected data leak of the Diaspora voter e-mail addresses by a Greek MEP. It will seek to determine whether privacy laws were breached that let Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou send...