News archive of October 2019

A senior US diplomat has reaffirmed Washington's support for North Macedonia's efforts to join NATO and the European Union, two weeks after France vetoed the country's EU membership talks.

The cunning Truffaldino agrees to become an errand boy for two separate masters in order to double his income. But the natural blunderer makes a complete mess of an already complicated situation in his masters' households, though a happy ending awaits all.

We Need Books, an Athens-based NGO dedicated to creating small libraries and cultural spaces that provide marginalized refugees and migrants with access to literature, information, conversation and company, is launching its new venue, a multilingual library, on November 1 and 2 in the downtown Athens district of Kypseli. Doors will open at 7 p.m.

Police in Cyprus say they have rescued 28 migrants, including nine children and four women, aboard a small boat located off Cape Greco on the Mediterranean island nation's southeastern tip.
A marine police vessel escorted the boat Thursday to a nearby harbor where the 14 Syrian and 14 Lebanese migrants disembarked for processing.

Technologic innovations should be adapted to the production to raise productivity, the Turkish industry and technology minister said on Oct. 31.

A European human rights watchdog on Thursday slammed living conditions as "horrible" for thousands of asylum seekers in overcrowded Greek camps, including waits spanning several hours for food and toilets and a lack of access to medicine.

Turkey's president on Oct. 31 praised the country's economic and strategic cooperation with Georgia.

Europe's top human rights court has ruled that the Greek system for exempting schoolchildren from religious education classes is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Under existing regulations, parents who want their children to be exempt from religious education classes must submit a solemn declaration saying that their children are not Orthodox Christians.

The crisis situation Romania is in and the fall of the Government is due to President Klaus Iohannis, and the change of government should have taken place "naturally, not upon request, not induced, not forced", Mircea Diaconu, an independent candidate in the presidential elections, supported by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), PRO Romania and the Neoliberal Party said on Thursday

The Syrian Constitutional Committee -- made up of members of the opposition, civil society, and regime -- began its second day of work on Oct. 31 in Geneva with talks on a constitutional roadmap.