News archive of February 2019

Seeking to avoid a head-on collision with Panos Kammenos, the leader of former coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), the government said Thursday it is mulling a change in the rules that will allow the right-wing party to retain its parliamentary group.

A shopkeeper in northern Turkey has been sentenced to jail after his cat scratched a female customer's face during a heated argument. 

According to this, they discussed the current Policy Coordination Instrument (PCI) program, which Serbia has been implementing since July 2018.

The meeting was also attended by Minister of Finance Sinisa Mali.

Brnabic and Roaf discussed the results to date within the framework of the program and concluded that quite a lot has been done in terms of achieving the goals set.

One of the topics Scott discussed with his Prva TV hosts on Friday morning was a letter Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic sent to US President Donald Trump.

Independent Greeks (ANEL) MP Thanasis Papachristopoulos did not give up his parliamentary seat on Friday, as he had announced a day earlier, after Parliament President Nikos Voutsis asked him to wait until lawmakers have voted on the NATO accession protocol for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) next week.

Visiting the world famous ancient temple of Göbeklitepe in southeastern Turkey on Feb. 1, a UN official invited the tourists to visit the "unique" historical site.

According to the report, Ramush Haradinaj, the prime minister of Pristina institutions and minister of police Ekrem Mustafa have sent a letter to this effect to the general secretariat of that organization.

A United Nations trust fund for Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian victims of lead poisoning in UN-run camps in north Kosovo after the 1998-99 war has received no money from any country yet.

The European Union and Japan have inaugurated a landmark deal they say will boost trade between the two economic powers and sends the message that international agreements still have a purpose in an age of increasing protectionism.

Greece's homegrown NBA All-Star, Giannis Antetokounmpo, predicted that tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas will soon become the new "Greek freak" as his career takes off following his impressive appearance at the Australian Open last month.