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The presidents of Venezuela and Guyana pledged after direct talks on Thursday not to resort to force to settle a long-simmering — and recently reheated — territorial dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region, a joint statement said.

US and Greek ambassadors handed their letters of credence to President Rumen Radev.

The official ceremony of welcoming the two foreign diplomats took place at 10.00 am in front of the Presidency building. The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria participated in the event and paid tribute to the ambassadors.

The New York Times story of a Syrian political opponent, Radwan Ziadeh, who was denied political asylum in the U.S. (June 24-25), says a lot about the evolution of the Syrian affair.

As if there were not enough issues in Turkish-U.S. relations, a new one has been added to the mix.  

This new one is the unpleasant incident that occurred in front of the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington on the day President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met U.S. President Donald Trump. 

Sunday’s edition of Proto Thema, Greece’s best-selling newspaper, headlines a story on the “steep” expenses incurred by Greek DM Panos Kammenos during his recent official visit to Washington D.C., where he headed up a ministry delegation.

By Apostolos Lakasas

Athens Law School students Persephone Vernadou, Panayiotis Theodoropoulos, Panayiotis Kyriakou and Anna Ventouratou came first in the World Round of the global Moot Court Competition on May 18 at the World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, beating a team from Harvard University.