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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Monday with Greek-Russian businessman Ivan Savvidis, the premier's office said in a statement.

The two men discussed issues related to Thessaloniki soccer team PAOK, the northern city's port and the businessman's planned real estate development in Paliouri, Halkidiki, in northern Greece, the office said. 

Last night US President Donald Trump abandoned his plans to host the G7 summit in 2020 at his golf club in Florida after Democrats and others criticized the decision was a brazen attempt to use his position to benefit his private businesses.

Athens is naturally concerned about Turkey's military operations in Syria and its mounting violations of Cyprus' exclusive economic zone, among other things, and is debating how best to manage the situation so as to avoid any unpleasant developments.

International Monetary Fund Director Kristalina Georgieva commented on China-US trade mini-deal. She said a reconciliation between the two countries was not enough and that a trade peace was needed, BGNES reported.

"It's really good news that the US and China are talking to each other, but it's not enough."

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Oct. 16 on a bipartisan resolution opposing President Donald Trump's decision to pull back troops in northern Syria.

A cross-party bill submitted to US Congress seeks to link Turkey's activities in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean to sanctions imposed by Washington earlier this week over Ankara's offensive in Syria, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reported on Thursday.

Testifying in defiance of President Donald Trump's ban, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators on Oct. 11 that Trump himself had pressured the State Department to oust her from her post and get her out of the country.

President Donald Trump was defiant in the face of an impeachment probe on Oct. 10 as he sought to convert the threat to his presidency into a weapon on the campaign trail, with biting and unsupported attacks on potential Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Oct. 10 held an emergency Central Executive Board (MYK) meeting, urging the government to show a "state reaction" to U.S. President Donald Trump's "penalizing" remarks about the country's fresh operation into northeast Syria.

Anger in Congress, surprise at the State Department and Pentagon, concern among allies and partners: Donald Trump's decision to abandon long-standing, bipartisan American support for the Kurds sparked a plethora of reactions, as the US president's erratic behavior becomes harder to follow, much less interpret.