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Senior official with Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) Maria Magdalena Grigore attended a meeting of the EU development ministers as part of a Foreign Affairs Council (FAC - Development) in Brussels on Thursday that addressed current development affairs and the situation in the Sahel.

Two journalists will stand trial on charges of forgery after they allegedly signed for drinks at a hotel bar in 2016 using the name of an aide of then-minister of state Nikos Pappas, who was leading a Greek delegation in New York to prepare a visit by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

A Claude Monet painting from his celebrated "Meules" (Haystacks) series fetched $110.7 million in New York on May 14 in an auction record for the French Impressionist master.

The United States is preparing for its use, said the Director of the Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian MFA, quoted by NOVA TV. 

Having a nuclear weapon in Europe, the United States is preparing to use it, RIA Novosti told the director of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vladimir Ermakov, of the Russian MFA's Directorate for Non-proliferation and Control.

Archbishop Demetrios of America submitted his resignation to Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios during a visit to Istanbul on Saturday.

Accomplished New York-based guitarist Marc Ribot comes to Athens as the last act of the successful concert series, St Paul's Sessions, at the Anglican church of the same name.

Currently, a group of 108 women and children from Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia want to return to the Balkans from the Al Hol camp. There are a small number of ethnic Albanian families in two other camps in Syria.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) approved 95 new grants totaling over 80 million dollars for projects or organizations that aim to strengthen journalistic practices, cultivate and promote civil discourse and civic engagement, and increase open access to healthcare and cultural resources, the organization said in a press release on Wednesday.

"Life Will Smile," a compelling documentary which tells the story of the survival of the 275 members of the Jewish community on the Ionian island of Zakynthos during Nazi occupation, will be screened at Harvard University, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, on Tuesday April 16 at 7.30 p.m.

The earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Jerusalem, taken in the mid-19th century, will remain on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until May 12.