News archive of June 2018

The Athens metro will not be in service from 11 p.m. until the end of the shift on Friday.

The union representing metro train drivers said in an announcement that it is moving ahead with the work stoppage because it had received no response from the government after last Monday's industrial action.

Four men who were arrested on the Egnatia Highway in northern Greece on Wednesday with two 22-centimeter knives, an electroshock weapon, 18 firecrackers, a container of gasoline and 20 empty glass bottles in the car they were traveling in, belong to a far-right group, Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas said on Thursday. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) spokesperson Bülent Tezcan has called on Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu to resign after the former announced he instructed local governors to hinder CHP officials from attending the funerals of martyred Turkish Army members.

Turkey will not retreat from procuring the Russian S-400 anti-missile defense systems despite U.S. warnings for sanctions, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on June 28.

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Romania will have first-ever eight players on a main singles board of a Grand Slam tournament, namely Wimbledon, after Alexandra Dulgheru and Elena-Gabriela Ruse qualified on Thursday by the victories clinched in the last tour of the preliminary phase.

The coffin carrying the remains of Lt. Col. Karl Karlovich Rjepetsky, a member of the 78th Navaginsky regiment of the 20th infantry division of the 1st Caucasian Army Corp., had hit headlines in Turkey after it was unearthed on April 26, 2017 during excavations to lay the foundation of a construction project in Ardahan.

AGERPRES special correspondent Madalina Cerban reports: President Klaus Iohannis affirmed on Thursday in Brussels, that a budget of the euro zone in itself is not problematic, unless it leads to the creation of a new rift.

The Historical and Folklore Museum of Nikiti in Halkidiki, northern Greece, is currently hosting an exhibition of 22 lithographs by Gaspare Fossati, depicting the former Greek Orthodox Christian basilica of Hagia Sofia in the city then widely known as Constantinople.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this in Moscow on Thursday, during his meeting with Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic.

The meeting looked at the current issues of bilateral cooperation, the deepening of bilateral ties in all areas, as well as mutual support in international organizations, the Serbian government announce.