Andrea Bonetti

In a bid to defuse tensions that have been rising since last September, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing. Greek officials said it was a step in the right direction and that Tsipras focused on ways to improve bilateral ties.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras speaks during a visit to the Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum, known in Greek as NOESIS, on Saturday. Tsipras was in the northern port city to mark the opening of the prime minister's office there.

The full moon rises over the Parthenon in Athens Monday. The splendid supermoon - whose technical name is perigee-syzygy of the Earth-moon-sun system insist - was the biggest in the last 68 years, according to scientists, who say that the last time the moon was this close to Earth was in January 1948 and that the next time will not roll around again until November 2034.

The moon rises and is seen through the Propylaia of the ancient Acropolis of Athens, Greece, Sunday. It will be the biggest full moon of the last 70 years.  [Andrea Bonetti/EPA]

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (center) and his coalition partner and Defense Minister Panos Kammenos (left of center) are seen with the Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA), Evangelos Apostolakis (right), on Wednesday at GEETHA's operations center.