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11.09.2024 / 14:02

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Moscow hopes President Vladimir Putin can visit Turkey for talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan once preparations are completed.

11.09.2024 / 13:59

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Construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant is being delayed by Germany’s Siemens Energy withholding key parts required for it to be built by Russia’s Rosatom, which is seeking alternatives in China, Turkey’s energy minister said on Wednesday.

11.09.2024 / 13:51

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Turkey is interested in an offer from Tripoli to carry out energy exploration offshore Libya, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday.

11.09.2024 / 13:46

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Two individuals were arrested following a dramatic police chase in Acharnes, East Attica, on Wednesday.

11.09.2024 / 13:08

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Stelios Kouloglou, a former SYRIZA MEP, has claimed that main opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis considered leaving politics and even discussed a potential career change with a media executive following the party’s poor performance in the June European Parliament elections.

11.09.2024 / 12:48

ALEXANDRA VOUDOURI

Berlin’s decision to impose temporary controls on Germany’s land borders is eliciting strong reactions within Europe, putting the migration issue back on the EU’s agenda just months after a historic agreement to resolve it.

11.09.2024 / 12:17

STAVROS PAPANTONIOU

The drop in waiting times for surgeries dominated Tuesday’s meeting convened at the Maximos Mansion by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Health Minister Adonis Georgiaidis on the National Health System (ESY).

11.09.2024 / 11:52

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Fresh cases of goat plague, also known as Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), have been detected in the Vartholomio area of Ilia, southern Greece, according to reports on Wednesday.

11.09.2024 / 11:03

VASSILIS NEDOS

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to meet Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netantayu in New York this month, according to well-informed sources, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

11.09.2024 / 10:51

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Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Tuesday night in the Nea Filadelfia district of Athens.

11.09.2024 / 10:29

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis visited the 2nd Primary School of Glyfada, located south of Athens, on Wednesday for the traditional blessing ceremony marking the official start of the school year.

11.09.2024 / 09:41

MARGARITA POURNARA

Josh Hickey recounts a funny scene that played out in the first year of the Hydra Book Club, a pop-up bookstore he established in 2021 on the first floor of the Hydra Historical Archive and Museum, featuring Greek and foreign books, new and used, on the island. It concerned a visit by Dakis Joannou, the renowned Cypriot art collector who owns two of the loveliest houses in the Saronic island’s main town and put Hydra on the international contemporary art map with the annual exhibition of top-flight artists at a converted slaughterhouse.

11.09.2024 / 08:58

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Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss Turkey’s recent commissioning of its first German-built T-214 submarine, look into the discussions this has sparked in Athens, and explore how Greece plans to position itself as a key player at sea in the coming years.

11.09.2024 / 08:36

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A magnitude 4 earthquake hit Feneos in the Corinth prefecture of the Peloponnese on Wednesday morning.

11.09.2024 / 08:05

PENNY BOULOUTZA

One in 10 children aged up to 3 years who arrive at the outpatient clinics of the National Health System (ESY) hospitals with injuries are victims of abuse.