International relations

Greece's foreign ministry expressed its condolences over the deadly bus crash in North Macedonia on Wednesday night that killed 14 people and injured dozens more.

"Deeply saddened by tragic road accident on the Skopje-Tetovo highway. Our thoughts go out to the victims' families and loved ones," the ministry said in a tweet.

Members of an honor guard hoist the NATO flag alongside the flag of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in front of the government building in Skopje, Tuesday.

The United States is still probing the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Feb. 11, as U.S. lawmakers continued to demand stronger U.S. action to punish the perpetrators.

Britain and Bulgaria are jointly investigating the 2015 poisoning of a Bulgarian arms dealer to determine whether it involved novichok, the nerve agent used in the poisoning of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury last year, the Guardian writes. 

Minister-delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba called on Monday on Romania's business milieu to get ready for "any possible outcome" in the case of the UK's withdrawal from the EU, mentioning that it could be confronted with the consequences of a "disordered withdrawal."

In the pages of this newspaper, analyst after analyst - myself included - has celebrated a high point in the Greece-US relationship. Most peg the beginning of this high point to 2015 and the Obama administration's efforts to avoid a messy Grexit.

The killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's Istanbul Consulate was "planned and perpetrated by Saudi officials," the UN special rapporteur said on Feb. 7.

The United States slapped sanctions on a Turkish businessman on Feb. 7 for violating US sanctions on Iran.

Ankara welcomed Moscow's move to lift visa requirements for Turkish service passport holders and truck drivers traveling to Russia, according to a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman on Feb. 6.

The era of Turkey taking out loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is long since gone, the Turkish president has said.