News archive of January 2017

BELGRADE - Donald Trump has joined Russia, China and radical Islam as a threat to the European Union, EU leaders were told on Tuesday by the man chairing a summit where they will debate relations with the United States.

The founder of Bandai Namco Holdings toy and software for electronic games company, Masaya Nakamura died on January 22nd as it was officially announced. However, the actual cause of death is still not known.

Pac-Man was released in 1980 and was a huge success around the world, to that extent that it earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

On Tuesday, the House of Commons started a debate on the draft bill allowing the British government to launch negotiations on leaving the EU, reported AFP, cited by BTA.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen! It is official: IRON MAIDEN will be back on the road again in 2017 to continue their immensely successful Book of Souls World Tour.

Former Prime Minister George Papandreou hit out on Tuesday at his predecessor Costas Karamanlis a day after the latter appeared at an event in Athens where a report was presented suggesting that the New Democracy government that came to power in 2004 inherited a troubled economy.

The Hispania Graeca merchant vessel rescued four shipwrecked fishermen off the south coast of Mindanao Island in the Philippines last week, after a four-day ordeal at sea, said Angelakos (Hellas) SA, the operator of the vessel, on Tuesday.

Two Bangladeshi nationals, both aged 28, have been arrested for the possession of contraband cigarettes, police in Athens said on Tuesday.

In a search of their homes in Patissia and Kolonos, police found and confiscated 7,977 packets of cigarettes and 906 of tobacco.

Both men appeared appeared before an Athens prosecutor later on Tuesday.

The Greek website e-amyna.com has released a rare photo taken inside the 345 Bomber Sq. It shows A-7H Corsair pilots after the briefing of the real missions they were about to undertake in minute’s notice at the night of the Imia Crisis, 21 years ago to the day.

It is also considering a more general ban on state employees wearing the headscarf and other religious symbols.
The measures are seen as an attempt to counter the rise of the far-right Freedom Party, whose candidate narrowly lost last month’s presidential vote.
The centrist coalition nearly collapsed last week amid crisis negotiations over the government’s future direction.

Setting up a European bad bank to absorb the mountain of bad loans saddling lenders in several eurozone countries would be a "valuable" move to improve the bloc's financial stability, the head of eurozone bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), said on Monday.