News archive of August 2016

Croatian centre back Gordon Schildenfeld has rejoined Panathinaikos football club, according to reports coming out of Croatia. The reports say the deal is sealed and the 31-year-old player is expected to arrive in Greece to sign his new contract after the match of his current club Dynamo Zagreb with Dynamo Georgia for the qualifying rounds of the Champions League.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu has warned his country will not hold on to the migrant deal reached with the EU unless the latter proceeds the visa liberalization the two sides agreed on in the spring.

The owner of an apartment on Amerikis Square faced an Athens prosecutor on Monday on charges of animal abuse after allegedly throwing a dog off a third-floor balcony.

Sexy Greek actress Vicky Kavoura shared a photo with her instagram followers wearing a red ‘hot’ swimsuit captioned ‘Good morning, have a nice week and a nice month. The best month of the year has arrived! Enjoy every moment…For today I picked my favourite swimsuit’.

Coast Guard officers rescued 34 migrants from a dinghy spotted off the coast of Lesvos on Monday following a weekend that saw virtually zero arrivals to the island.

The migrants were transferred to the island's reception center at Moria.

The influx of migrants into Greece has picked up since July 15 following a failed coup in neighboring Turkey.

Turkey's opposition parties voiced their diverse opinions about the third state of emergency decree law which would put the army under civil control, with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) arguing that the changes would subordinate the army under political rule and thus cause it to lose its command capabilities and the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) along with the Peoples' D

The restructuring of the state in the wake of the failed July 15 coup attempt cannot be conducted by just "three or four people," main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, suggesting that parliament must oversee the issue.

Members of the Turkish Football Federation's (TFF) affiliated boards have resigned for "security checks" amid a wide-ranging state investigation into the July 15 failed coup attempt, the federation has said in a statement.

Pope Francis said Sunday that Islam could not be equated with terrorism and warned Europe was pushing its young into the hands of extremists.
“It’s not true and it’s not correct (to say) Islam is terrorism,” he told journalists aboard the papal plane during the return journey from a trip to Poland.
“I don’t think it is right to equate Islam with violence”.

PM-designate Aleksandar Vucic has called a news conference for 18:00 CET Monday; judging by media reports this morning, he could announce a list of ministers.