Italy

As Athens prepares to host Monday's "Ancient Civilizations Forum," Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Friday it will bring together ministers of states representing historically great cultures which still remain influential today.

Turkey's tourism sector has kept losing its share in Germany, with German tourists opting to visit other countries such as Spain and Greece rather than Turkey, amid security concerns and recent tensions in bilateral ties, said a leading sector association on April 21. 

The Polish interior minister affirmed Poland will not repeat the Western European policy of multiculturalism which he said has led to the “bloody harvest” of multiple terror attacks across the continent since the start of the migrant crisis.

Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano has called his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to request the release of Italian journalist Gabriele Del Grande, who is currently in police detention in Hatay on the Syrian border. 

Contributions made to the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district by writer Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, known as the Fisherman of Halicarnassus, are highly appreciated by locals.

Italy on April 19 called on Turkey to release a journalist arrested this month near the Syrian border while he was researching refugees.

Syria Army - Illustration

Serbian cameraman Miodrag Stojicic, who works for Italy's RAI, has told a Belgrade daily about his work in the war zones in Iraq and Syria.

Serbian cameraman Miodrag Stojicic, who works for Italy's RAI, has told a Belgrade daily about his work in the war zones in Iraq and Syria.

"Millions of people have been killed since 2003 in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen. The dead, left inside the ruins of razed cities or in the desert sand, will never be counted," Stojicic told Vecernje Novosti, and added:

With the death of Emma Morano on Saturday, the title of ‘oldest living human’ has been passed on to the Jamaican born Violet Brown. At the ripe old age of 117, she sits atop the infographic below, showing the age and birthplace of the oldest living people on Earth. All women, the country of birth most represented is Japan; accounting for five of the ‘top ten’.

An article in the New York Times paints a bleak picture of the impact of the economic crisis in southern European countries with a substantial drop in birthrates, as an increasing number of women decide to not have children.