News archive of August 2018

US President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that talks with arch foe Iran were imminent, but the idea has been criticized in Tehran, with the country's foreign minister warning that "PR stunts won't work."

Authorities' failure to issue a timely warning about the approaching wildfire that scorched the town of Mati, a popular tourist resort 17 miles east of Athens, left "almost zero time between realizing the danger and reacting to it," according to a preliminary inquiry into the deadly inferno released Tuesday by the University of Athens.

Turkey is not a country that can be easily dispensed with, said the Turkish presidential spokesman on July 31.

Seventy six victims of the wildfire that gutted a coastal town in east Attica killing at least 91 people and injuring scores have been identified, the police's criminal investigation division said on Wednesday in its latest briefing.

The number of people officially unaccounted for stands at eight.

A Japanese delegation with members of Japan's National Diet visited on Tuesday the 99 Deveselu Military Base which hosts the Aegis Ashore anti-missile defence system, the Naval Support Facility (NSF) Deveselu posting on Facebook images of various moments of the visit.

The number of overnight stays was 5.3 per cent higher than in June 2017.

More than 91.3 per cent of these tourists were from the region, Western Europe and Scandinavia.

Visitors from Russia and Serbia still top the list, however, responsible for 17.7 and 13 per cent of the total number of foreign tourists.

A roadside bombing by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed the wife and baby of a Turkish soldier in the southeastern province of Hakkari, the local governor's office said July 31.

The images of Bulgarian national heroes and political leaders appear on mugs and fridge magnets next to those of Stalin, Hitler and Communist leader Todor Zhivkov on vendors’ stalls around the country.