News archive of May 2023

Hundreds of citizens gathered this morning in front of the Zvean municipality building, in front of which KFOR soldiers and members of the Special Kosovo Police are still standing.
Members of KFOR installed barbed wire near the municipal building.

A week before Greece's May 21 general election, communications consultant Stavros Kontaxis carried out an experiment. Using ChatGPT he designed a model for a poll of polls, inputting all the available survey results to see what kind of conclusion it would yield.

Blinken said that this Nordic country has already taken significant steps to resolve the demands that official Ankara has made Sweden's membership in the North Atlantic Alliance conditional on, Reuters reports.

Turkish giant Galatasaray has claimed its 23rd Turkish Süper Lig title on night of May 30 with a 4-1 win over Ankaragücü in its penultimate match of the season, with a double from Mauro Icardi and further goals from Barış Alper Yılmaz and Sergio Oliveira.

It was the first time the Istanbul club has claimed the league title since the 2018-19 season.

The latest escalation of violence showed that the so-called Kosovo has no place in the Council of Europe and the EU, announced the spokesperson for foreign affairs of the Alternative for Germany.

The daughter of former US president Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner hailed their visit to the Acropolis in a social media post on Tuesday. The iconic ancient Greek monument receives thousands of visitors a day, with long queues being reported since early this year. The Ministry of Culture plans to deal with this phenomenon with the introduction of slots.

Workers at the Perama Ship Repair Zone, situated northwest of the Piraeus port, have initiated a fresh 24-hour strike on Wednesday in response to a fatal accident that took place on Tuesday. As part of their protest, employees will gather outside the ISAP electric railway station in Piraeus at 10 a.m., while the Piraeus Labor Center has organized a rally at Korai Square in Piraeus at 7 p.m.

The U.S. military said Tuesday that a Chinese fighter jet flew aggressively close to a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, forcing the American pilot to fly through the turbulent wake.

Troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo on Wednesday placed metal fences and barbed wire barriers in a northern town following clashes with ethnic Serbs that left 30 international soldiers wounded.

North Korea's attempt to put the country's first spy satellite into space failed Wednesday in a setback to leader Kim Jong Un's push to boost his military capabilities as tensions with the United States and South Korea rise.