News archive of September 2018

A day after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned Cyprus not to proceed with gas drilling in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), his Cypriot counterpart said Sunday Nicosia would not be cowed by threats.

"Threats, wherever they come from, are a sign of weakness," Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said.

The Liberals' leader Ludovic Orban announced on Sunday that the PNL will make up a large negotiation team with each parliamentary, from the PSD (Social Democratic Party, major at rule, ed. n.) included, "to persuade them that it is an utmost necessity for the Dancila gov't" to go, specifying that a censor motion will be prepared "very punctiliously".

The American paper said that US and Germany were on the opposite sides when it came to a plan about border change between Serbia and Kosovo and solving one of the last major territorial disputes in Europe.

Aiming to push the narrative that a new post-bailout era has indeed dawned for the country, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to announce handouts and tax cuts worth more than a billion euros in his keynote speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Saturday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel won accolades for her stunning call on Sept. 4, 2015 to keep open Germany's doors to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers, many fleeing war-torn Syria or Iraq.

Turkey's foreign trade deficit in August fell 58 percent on a yearly basis, according to the trade ministry's preliminary data on Sept 1.

Former Greek basketball star Theodoros Papaloukas jumps at a beach volleyball event in Mati, east Attica, held on Saturday and Sunday in honor of the nearly 100 victims of last month's wildfire. The event was named after Dimitris Katsoulakis, a young man who perished along with his father, mother and grandmother. [Intime News]

A high-level South Korean delegation will fly to North Korea this week to discuss arrangements for an inter-Korean summit there this month, as relations grow cooler between Washington and Pyongyang.

The U.S. military plans to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan due to Islamabad's lack of "decisive actions" in support of American strategy in the region, the Pentagon has said.

He said that after RS refused to open three reception centers for migrants, the Council of Ministers of B&H decided to situate them across Serbian villages in the Federation of B&H so that they could stay there permanently.