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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in France on April 10 as part of a trans-Atlantic tour, with French authorities hoping to further strengthen relations with the fast-growing Asian nation amid talks about a possible fighter-jet deal.

 Eldorado Gold CEO Paul Wright talks to Kathimerini about the Canadian firm?s major investment in Greece and the difficulties it is facing

By Yannis Palaiologos

Canada carried out its first air strikes in Syria on Wednesday the military said, expanding Ottawa's contribution to the US-led coalition against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after parliament approved a larger role in the conflict.
      

The thorny “name issue” still poisoning relations between Greece and its neighbor to the immediate north, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Yugoslavia (FYRoM), over what Athens calls the neighbor and what the neighbor calls itself, generated headlines a world away last week, in Australia.

Traces of radioactivity originating from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011 have been detected in a seawater sample collected near Canada's west coast, according to a radiation monitoring group.
      

By Stathis Kousounis

Foreign tourism arrivals rose a remarkable 23 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year to reach a record 22 million, not including cruise visitors, according to the Bank of Greece?s annual border survey that the Hellenic Statistical Authority published on Tuesday.

Police said hundreds of supporters and opponents of a gold mining operation in northern Greece clashed on Saturday despite efforts to separate them.

Police added more than 2,000 supporters and about 850 opponents of the mine were involved. No arrests were made.

Reality and mythology, traditional and modern. This combination makes Crete a cosmopolitan center, one of the most important tourist destinations in the Mediterranean and the ideal place to create priceless memories. Crete is the largest island of Greece.

Albanian authorities ordered the evacuation of an entire village in southern Albania after two uncontrolled leakages of natural gas occurred during drilling works for a new well owned by Bankers Petroleum, the main petroleum extraction company in Albania.

No one can predict what the future holds for any country in the world, more so with regard to its economy, which is affected by a variety of factors, often out of its control.