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Ukrainian Cargo Plane Conveying Weapons Crashes In Greece

Ukrainian Cargo Plane Conveying Weapons Crashes In Greece

July 18, 2022 2:55 am

All eight crew members of a Ukrainian-operated cargo plane carrying military goods were killed on Sunday when crashed in Greece en route from Serbia to Bangladesh, the Serbian defence minister has confirmed.

Witnesses who saw the crash said that they saw the privately operated Antonov plane on fire and heard explosions.

Videos shared on social media which were sighted by Africa Daily News, New York showed the aircraft as it was engulfed by a giant fireball as it hit the ground late on Saturday in Paleochori village near the Greek city of Kavala.

‘Sadly, according to the information we …

UEFA Turns Down Greek Protest Over North Macedonia Shirt

UEFA Turns Down Greek Protest Over North Macedonia Shirt

June 17, 2021 3:50 am

European football governing body, UEFA has rejected Greece’s request to change the North Macedonia shirt at Euro 2020 after the Greeks argued that the current version violated a historic treaty between the Balkan neighbours.

Greece had earlier pointed out that the initials FFM (Football Federation of Macedonia) that feature on the shirt refer to the Balkan country’s name before a 2018 treaty resolved a longstanding diplomatic row between the Balkan neighbours.

UEFA confirmed it had received a letter from the Greek government requesting that the shirt be modified.

However, European football’s governing body said it had rejected the request because …

Greece, Microsoft announce 1-bn-euro cloud investment

Greece, Microsoft Announce 1bn Euro Cloud Investment

October 5, 2020 5:54 pm

Greece and Microsoft on Monday announced an investment deal worth up to a billion euros ($1.2 billion) to build cloud storage infrastructure in the country.

The announcement comes as Greece’s pro-business government plans to gradually shift the country’s notoriously bureaucratic civil service online.

“We are bringing data centres to Greece. We’re going to create a new region that will include Greece as well as (neighbouring countries),” Microsoft president Brad Smith told the project launch in Athens.

“This is a new opportunity for every small business in Greece… with cloud services, you …

UK Suspends Arms Exports To Turkey Over Syria Offensive

Greece, Turkey Draw In Allies In Mediterranean War Games

August 26, 2020 4:55 pm

Greece and its EU allies held war games in the Mediterranean on Wednesday while Turkey conducted drills with the US navy nearby as the row between the two neighbours over gas and maritime borders ratched up another notch.

The convergence of a growing number of warships on an energy-rich but disputed patch of the sea between Cyprus and Crete came as NATO and a host of European officials called for cooler heads to prevail.

Greece and Turkey are ancient rivals with a litany of disputes despite both being members of the NATO military alliance.

They nearly went to war over …

A Decade After Debt Crisis, Greece On Verge Of Recession

A Decade After Debt Crisis, Greece On Verge Of Recession

May 2, 2020 5:23 pm

Ten years after sinking into its worst economic crisis in living memory, Greece once again faces the spectre of a grave recession in the midst of a global coronavirus lockdown.

Though the country has so far been spared the death toll of other European nations at fewer than 150 fatalities from COVID-19, it will not escape the resulting economic downturn, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned this week.

“The consequences of this coronavirus attack will undoubtedly be dramatic,” he told parliament on Thursday.

“We know with certainty that (the recession) will be deep… we don’t know how long the health crisis …

Turkey To Stop Migrants Crossing To Greece By Sea

Turkey To Stop Migrants Crossing To Greece By Sea

March 7, 2020 10:12 am

Turkey will no longer allow migrants to cross the Aegean sea to Greece because it is unsafe, the coastguard has said.

The order from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comes a week after he said he was “opening the doors” for refugees to enter Europe, amid tensions over the Syrian conflict.

The EU accuses him of using migrants for political purposes. It insists its doors are “closed”.

Meanwhile, clashes have again erupted at the land border.

There appears to have been no change in Turkey’s position with regard to letting migrants try to enter Greece via this route.

On Saturday, Greek …

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