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ATHENS, Greece (AFP) – A 24-hour strike gripped Greece on Wednesday, disrupting travel and shutting down services, as unions mobilized against a new round of austerity cuts imposed by the country’s international creditors. The walkout cuts off maritime traffic for a second day while dozens of flights had to be cancelled or rescheduled and hospitals ran on emergency staff. Separate protests will be held in Athens and other major cities during the day. “We want […]
ADENDRO, Greece (Reuters) — Three people died and 10 more were injured when a train derailed in northern Greece on Saturday night (May 13) and ripped through a house, police said on Sunday (May 14). At least two carriages crashed into the ground floor of a house, ramming through its walls. Other carriages toppled onto their sides with windows smashed. It was unclear what caused the accident. The train carrying 70 passengers and five crew […]
BARI, Italy (AFP) – International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Friday urged eurozone lenders to be “far more specific” in their commitment to a debt-relief package for Greece. The IMF has made a package easing Greece’s repayment burden a condition of its participation in a 86-billion-euro ($94-billion) bailout. But several eurozone governments are dragging their heels, insisting on more evidence of debt-plagued Greece delivering on reforms as a condition of green-lighting the third rescue […]
by Ben Simon / Fulya Ozerkan Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – A deal to end decades of division in Cyprus is close, UN chief Antonio Guterres said Thursday, as he led a crunch conference on solving one of the world’s longest-running political crises. Guterres was undertaking his first foreign trip as the United Nations’ secretary general seeking a breakthrough at a Geneva summit that involves rival Cypriot sides as well as Greece, Turkey and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama will head to Greece, Germany and Peru next month for what could be his final trip abroad before leaving the White House in January, his office said Tuesday. The November 14-21 trip — which will fall between the November 8 election to choose his successor and Inauguration Day on January 20 — will aim to show Obama’s engagement with both his transatlantic and Asia-Pacific partners. Obama […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) – by John HADOULIS Sabine WIBAUX Southern EU leaders on Friday sought to close ranks on migration, extremism and austerity with the bloc’s future on the line, and ahead of a showdown with hardliners next week. Bringing together the members worst hit by the EU’s twin recession and refugee crises, the mini-summit will focus on “protecting borders, fostering growth, fighting against immigration… and acting together against terrorism,” French President Francois Hollande said at the […]
(UNITED NATIONS) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today started a programme to train European laboratory staff on how to use nuclear-derived techniques to detect lumpy skin disease – a highly infectious cowpox virus spreading across the continent. “Lumpy skin disease has always been considered exotic in Europe, therefore many laboratories in the region are not prepared to detect it, or to differentiate between its various strains,” said Giovanni Cattoli, head of the UN […]
AT least 16 persons suspected of large-scale forgery of documents and the smuggling of irregular migrants have been arrested in Greece, with the help of the Europol. Three more were also arrested in the Czech Republic. These two parallel investigations supported and coordinated by Europol targeted a network of organised crime groups involved in the massive production and distribution of falsified or forged documents, including passports, ID cards and visas, to third country nationals. Such […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) – by Alex PIGMAN Eurozone ministers reached Wednesday a vital deal to unlock urgent cash for Greece but analysts warned promises to tackle the country’s debt mountain are sketchy, spelling trouble further down the road. The agreement unlocks 10.3 billion euros ($12 billion) in bailout cash that Greece needs to repay big loans to the European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July, having already fallen behind in paying for […]
Idomeni, Greece (AFP)—Greek police on Tuesday transferred some two thousand migrants out of the overcrowded camp of Idomeni, launching a major operation to clear up the squalid tent city where thousands fleeing war and poverty have lived for months. The operation began at dawn, and by evening officials said they had put 2,031 people on buses to newly opened camps near Greece’s second city Thessaloniki, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) to the south. “The operation […]
CAIRO , Egypt (AFP) — The Egyptian military deployed search aircraft and naval vessels to locate an EgyptAir flight with 66 people on board that vanished over the Mediterranean on Thursday, the army said. Greece was also participating in the search for the Airbus A320 that lost radar contact after entering Egyptian airspace en route from Paris, it added. se/kir © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
