Washington

By Costas Iordanidis

Uncertainty dominates the program to ?train-and-equip? moderate elements of the Syrian opposition that Ankara and Washington were said to have agreed on months ago. Statements from the two sides are not exactly in tune with one another.

By Nikos Chrysoloras, Eleni Chrepa & Rebecca Christie

Greece remained far apart from its international creditors on a deal to unlock needed bailout aid, with the two sides unable to even agree on the amount of progress made thus far.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged Russia to avoid holding snap military drills.

An Iran nuclear deal is not likely by June 30 because technical details will remain to defined and Iran will not get sanctions relief before the end of the year in the best of cases, western ambassadors said on May 26. 

Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have agreed on the necessity to enforce a safe zone and a no-fly zone in Syria despite the absence of such an agreement with the US administration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

Most local mariners and veteran Greece holiday-makers already knew as much, yet National Geographic’s latest book, “Journeys of a Lifetime”, more-or-less … exposes the large island of Evia as one of the top 10 international destinations for sailing.

Turkey and the United States are still discussing technical aspects of possible air support for Syrian rebels trained in Turkey, with no quick formula apparently on the horizon.

An editorial of US daily New York Times sparked a fervent response from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during an Istanbul event he attended on Monday.

President Barack Obama heralded the first U.S. Memorial Day in 14 years without a major ground war in an annual ceremony of remembrance on May 25 for fallen American forces.