News archive of January 2016

Greek farmers concluded their meeting at Tempi where representatives of 35 blockades took part and announced that they are ready to protest against government’s measures by demonstrating in Athens.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has said that a Russian fighter jet violated Turkish airspace on Jan. 29, months after a downing that caused a big row between Ankara and Moscow. 

An official statement released on Jan. 30 said the Russian jet -a SU-34 fighter-bomber- was repeatedly warned by Turkish air radar units in Russian and English.

Anti-authoritative and anti-racist organizations are participating in an anti-fascist protest despite police’s decision on banning public gatherings on Saturday, after the violent episodes occurred at Monastiraki between members of anti-authoritative groups and ultra-nationalist.

A Bangladeshi man has been suffering from a rare and inherited skin disorder known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis for the past seven years causing tree-like ‘roots’ growing from his hands and feet.

The online campaign which calls for the Nobel Prize of Peace to be awarded to Greek Islanders for their response to the refugee crisis ends on February 1 aiming to gather more than 500,000 signatures.

Serbia's Prime Minister has belatedly axed his controversial defence minister, Branislav Gasic, who has been in the middle of controversy since early December when he told reporter Zlatija Labovic from TV B92, who had knelt down to get out of the way of her cameraman at a press event: "I love female journalists who get down on their knees easily."

Demonstrations have taken place in several towns and cities across Bulgaria after reports emerged that the Education Ministry is planning to revise key sections of the school curriculum referring to the years of Ottoman rule.

Greek football teams AEL Larissa and Acharnaikos staged a sit-down protest in a touching tribute to refugees who have lost their lives trying to reach Greek islands.

When the referee blew his whistle to get the game underway, all 22 players including coaches, medical staff and match officials sat on the ground, while the teams’ fans applauded their actions.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Jan. 30 tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees, insisting that asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended. 

The Balkan gas hub project put forward by Bulgaria is not aimed at going around Ukraine's gas transportation network, Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova said on Saturday.