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Europe
Greece Hails Inclusion of Odessa, Ukraine in World Heritage List
Greece's Foreign Affairs Ministry welcomed the World Heritage Committee's decision to inscribe the Historic Centre of the city of Odessa, in Ukraine, on the World Heritage List, it said in a statement on Thursday.
This decision "is a successful outcome...
Europe
US and Germany Set to Send Tanks to Ukraine
The US and Germany reportedly plan to send tanks to Ukraine in what Kyiv hopes will be a game-changer on the battlefield.
Germany will send Leopard 2 tanks and approve re-export of the same kind of tanks from partner countries,...
Diplomacy
Russia on Relations With Greece: “We Used to Be Friends”
Russia “used to be friends with Greece” until Athens submitted to “American demands,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
“We noted the transformation of its leadership," the Russian Embassy in Athens tweeted Lavrov as saying on Monday. "It was...
Europe
Ukraine Suffers Deadliest Civilian Attack in Months at Dnipro
The mayor of Dnipro in Ukraine has warned there may be no further survivors after Saturday's Russian missile strike on an apartment building.
A whole section of the nine-story block collapsed, and the city administration says at least thirty-five people...
Military
Putin Publicly Lambasts PM for Correcting Him During Briefing
President Putin publicly reprimanded Denis Manturov yesterday over the Deputy Prime Minister's failure to secure more military aircraft. The enraged Russian President even went so far as to call him a ‘fool.’
Footage from the released video shows Putin questioning...
Greek News
Greece 2022: The Year in Review
The year 2022 was a turbulent year for Greece following the Russian invasion of Ukraine which resulted in a spike in inflation and energy costs. In addition, Turkey's provocations in the Aegean, the wiretapping scandal, and Qatargate have marked...
Europe
2022, the Year Russian Oligarchs Kept Dying in Suspicious Ways
The year 2022 was apparently a bad year to be a Russian oligarch. Members of Russia's business elite, particularly those linked to big energy firms, started dying one by one under what have been described as "suspicious" circumstances over...
Europe
Russia Warns the US Against Assassination Attempt on Putin
Russia warned the US on Tuesday against ordering a “decapitation strike” on President Vladimir Putin.
“Some 'unnamed officials' from the Pentagon actually threatened to deliver a 'decapitation strike' against the Kremlin,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russia’s TASS news agency...
Europe
Ukraine Hits Airbase 300 Miles Deep Into Russia
Ukraine attacked an airbase in Russia’s Saratov region, which lies about 500 kilometers (310 miles) northeast of the border with Ukraine, with a drone.
Three Russian military personnel were killed at Engels bomber base, Russian news agencies reported, citing the...
Europe
Putin Says Russia Is Ready to Negotiate, but Ukraine Refuses
Russia is ready to negotiate over Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers had refused to engage in talks, President Putin told an interview.