News archive of January 2023

Cypriots are voting Sunday for a new president who they'll expect to decisively steer the small island nation through shifting geopolitical sands and uncertain economic times that have become people's overriding concern, eclipsing stalemated efforts to remedy the country's ethnic division.

A coalition of six Turkish opposition parties striving to end two decades of rule by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday reaffirmed a commitment for a return to parliamentary democracy should their alliance win elections that are likely to be held on May 14.

A large-scale search-and-rescue operation resumed at first light in western Greece on Tuesday for a Hellenic Air Force officer who has been missing since the jet he was flying went down over the Ionian Sea on Monday.

Marking the 100-year anniversary of Maria Callas' birth, the Athens Symphony Orchestra and Choir, under the baton of Sebastiano Rolli, take the stage at the same theater where the celebrated Greek opera singer made her debut in 1941, performing a minor role in the operetta "Boccaccio," at the age of 17.

The two once worked together with great success and together they reached six Grand Slam titles.
The German talked about the latest success of the Serbian tennis player for Eurosport in "The Yellow Ball" podcast show.

A lot has changed in terms of Greece's defense doctrine since 1996, when its naval forces and Turkey's had gathered around the two islets of Imia in the eastern Aegean.

Greek online fashion sales increased in 2022 despite rising inflation, geopolitical tensions and an energy crisis that negatively affected consumer behavior, GLAMI.gr said in its annual Fashion Year in Review report.

More specifically, 56% of fashion e-shops reported an increase in revenue, up from 47% in 2021, with 43% saying business results were positive in 2022.

"The war in Ukraine also shows that our security is closely interconnected," Stoltenberg said during a visit to the Iruma air base north of Tokyo.

In 2020, previous administration of President Donald Trump introduced a national emergency due to the coronavirus and a public health emergency, Reuters reminds.
Biden has repeatedly extended those measures.
The U.S. Office of Budget Management said in a statement that the declarations will be extended again until May 11 and then revoked.

It's 1996 and Greece is on a collision course with Turkey over a cluster of islets in the eastern Aegean. Twenty-seven years later, one of the protagonists of the Imia crisis, the regular commander of the area and captain of the Navarinon frigate, retired vice admiral Ioannis Lioulis, speaks about events that have never been made public before, in an exclusive interview with Kathimerini.