Cities in Europe

Visiting the capital for the first time, Rizes (Roots) Fest will be on at the City of Athens' Technopolis cultural complex (athens-technopolis.gr) on June 8, with three acts from different parts of the country. Digging deep into the archives, the festival celebrates traditional Greek folk music and dances in the spirit of the classic panigiri.

Robert Kozma, a member of Ne Davimo Beograd (Let's Not Drown Belgrade), a campaign organisation that came to parliament for the first time as a part of the Green-Left Coalition at the 2022 elections. Photo: Private archive

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said at a meeting with US National Guard Bureau Chief Gen Daniel R Hokanson on Wednesday that Serbia-US bilateral relations were on an upward trajectory and that both sides had expressed intent to continue and deepen defence cooperation.

The City of Athens has announced an open competition for public space design ideas in downtown districts like Kolonaki, Exarchia and Kypseli, which are frequented by thousands of people every day and are to get busier as new subway stations are being built there.

Russia launched a pre-dawn air raid on Ukraine's capital on May 30, killing at least one person and sending Kiev's residents again scrambling into shelters to escape a relentless wave of daylight and nighttime bombardments, while Moscow authorities said the Russian capital was attacked by drones.

Shaken, stirred, classic, kooky, creative or gastronomic, the Athens Cocktail Festival (www.athenscocktailfestival.com) aims to please fans of the great art of the cocktail.

BELGRADE - Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) Chief of General Staff Gen Milan Mojsilovic met with Cypriot Ambassador to Belgrade Demetrios Theophylactou on Wednesday to discuss the political and security situation in the region and prospects for development of bilateral military-to-military cooperation.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Interior confirmed to Tanjug on Wednesday that bomb alerts emailed to 78 primary and 37 secondary schools in Belgrade this morning had been false.

Following counter-diversion checks in all of the schools, the police established that there were no bombs in the school buildings.

BELGRADE - Over a hundred Belgrade schools received bomb alerts on Wednesday morning.

According to an official statement released by the Serbian Ministry of Education, the bomb alerts had been sent to 78 primary and 37 secondary schools by email.

Athens hosted an art exhibition a couple of months ago at its iconic Zappeion Hall venue where Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was able to express his creative side. Late last year, Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid an official visit to Himare, becoming the first Greek prime minister to visit one of the main ethnic Greek towns in Albania in 30 years.