News archive of June 2018

The Serbian president said this for RTS, apparently referring to a spate of recent incidents targeting Serbs in Kosovo.

Every May, Deutsche Bank publishes its annual report on the prices of goods and services in the world's largest cities. To determine the cost of staying in one place or another, the bank considers a number of factors like the value of a pack of cigarettes to rents for housing.

Dr. Panagiotis Behrakis and the Hellenic Armed Forces were the honorees of the American-Hellenic Institute's (AHI) annual Hellenic Heritage Achievement and Public Service Awards Dinner.

The US will impose extra charges on imports of aluminum and steel from European Union countries, Canada and Mexico as of midnight on July 1. This was announced by US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.

Turkish Treasury will pay back 46.2 billion Turkish liras (some $10.28 billion) of debt, 10.4 percent of which will go to external creditors, by June-August this year, the Undersecretariat of Treasury announced on May 31.

A 14-year-old boy from Texas won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the United States on Thursday with the Greek word "koinonia," or spiritual communion.

Karthik Nemmani knocked out a whopping 515 contestants in his debut at a national bee, which was also one of the toughest installations of the event in its 93-year history.

Hundreds marched on May 31 through the centre of Istanbul to mark five years since the Gezi Park protests that shook Turkey. Here is the story of the march in photos (AFP)

As Athens and Skopje appear to be edging towards a solution on the Macedonia name dispute, reports indicated on Thursday that the Republic of Northern Macedonia (Severna Makedonija) is the likeliest settlement.

In this picture taken May 25, 2018 show general view of capital city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Some fragments of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus may have been smuggled to the British Museum in 1857, but the 2,000-year-old structure's ruins in the Aegean city of Bodrum have been drawing many visitors.