News archive of November 2017

The closing auctions buoyed the Greek bourse benchmark out of the red on Thursday, with turnover reaching heights unseen since late September, at 92 million euros.

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index ended at 740.20 points, adding 0.26 percent to Wednesday's 738.31 points.

On a monthly basis it lost 2.52 percent.

The entrance to an apartment building in the Kalamaria district of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was damaged when a makeshift explosive device was detonated by unknown assailants on Thursday.

According to reports, the blast on Konitsis Street occurred in the early morning hours.

Police said the explosion didn't cause a fire but shattered windows and damaged walls.

Police said on Thursday they had unraveled a criminal gang that sold drugs in central Athens and western Attica and arrested four people.

In sweeps at Karaiskaki Square, Aghios Panteleimonas, Pangrati and Kypseli, police nabbed two Albanian nationals, 43 and 49, and two Greeks, both aged 57.

Reports said the 49-year-old Albanian suspect was the ringleader.

BUDAPEST - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo at the summit of China and Central and Eastern European states in Budapest on Monday.

Brnabic and Szydlo said political relations between the two countries were good and without open issues and that economic cooperation needed to be improved further.

Cyprus's Defense Ministry says the island nation will help Lebanon build a search-and-rescue center for responding to emergencies off its Mediterranean Sea coastline.

A Defense Ministry statement says Cypriot officials will provide Lebanese authorities with training, technical know-how and financial assistance for the center.

Rampelia Patinioti (c) is examined by military doctor Perikles Syros (l) during a mission of medical staff organized by the Hellenic Navy on the Aegean island of Anafi earlier this month.

Croatia’s president and media expressed shock at the courtroom suicide of Slobodan Praljak, while simulateously criticising the Hague Tribunal’s conviction of six wartime Bosnian Croat military and political leaders.

Beta reported this citing a press release from Vucic's office.

Vucic was taking part in a working lunch organized by the head of the EU Delegation in Serbia Sem Fabrizi, attended also by ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives of EU member states.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told President Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 30 that she would work to speed up the transfer of financial assistance promised by the European Union to Turkey as part of a migrant deal, Turkish presidential sources said.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said this in Hong Kong on Thursday, where she is participating in the World in 2018 event organized by the Economist.