News archive of September 2017

Preparations for a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and US President Donald Trump in Washington are in the final stretch with a target date of October 17, Kathimerini understands. If the meeting does not take place on that date, reports said Friday it will definitely take place by the end of the year.

Preparations for a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and US President Donald Trump in Washington are in the final stretch with a target date of October 17, Kathimerini understands. If the meeting does not take place on that date, reports said Friday it will definitely take place by the end of the year.

There's much to criticize about Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany's outgoing finance minister: It can be said that he is obsessive and spiteful, and that his humor at the expense of Greece often bordered on sadism. That he - and Chancellor Angela Merkel - did very little to resolve the Greek crisis.

The president of Iraq’s Kurdish region warned on Friday that the Kurds might be forced to retaliate if the central government persists with what his spokesman called a “very aggressive” stance toward the pro-independence referendum.

Saucy sisters Adel and Alina Fakhteeva say they want to find someone who will take them to the bright lights of Moscow because they are bored of their hometown.

Supporters of Catalan independence have begun occupying polling stations in a bid to protect Sunday’s vote from a crackdown by the Spanish government.

The vice-president of Spain’s secessionist north-eastern region warned that backers of Catalonia’s independence would cast their ballots even if national police “took voting stations by assault”.

Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski is emerging from the shadow of a self-driving lawsuit to create a robot god.

Despite the "full support" expressed by ruling SYRIZA's political council for the planned real estate investment at the site of the capital's old airport in Elliniko, party cadres appear reluctant to endorse the government's bid to bypass the Central Archaeological Council (KAS), which is set to decide next Tuesday on whether a part of the plot will be declared to be of archaeological interest.

Concerns are resurfacing about the situation on the islands of the eastern Aegean where thousands of migrants remain cooped up in overcrowded reception centers as an influx of new arrivals from Turkey has intensified.

Athens was named the Emerging Cultural City of the Year for 2017 at the Leading Culture Destinations Award in London on Friday. The Greek capital was lauded for managing to a maintain a thriving cultural scene despite the country's protracted financial crisis.