A new agreement is taking shape around the development of Cyprus’ Aphrodite gas field, as NewMed Energy moves forward with plans to export natural gas to Egypt. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding covering the potential sale of approximately 100 billion cubic meters of gas from the offshore field. The proposed arrangement would …
For nearly 50 years, Iran has been treated as an outlaw, earning a spot as one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world for its nuclear and weapons programs, its support for terrorism, its human rights abuses and more. But despite persistent efforts by the United States, the European Union, Britain and the …
Farmers on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesvos, who are struggling to cope with a deadly livestock disease, on Tuesday prevented hundreds of travelers from boarding an outward-bound ferry to protest the government’s handling of the epidemic. State ERT television reported that farmers blockaded the entrance to the port of Mylilini, allowing only conscripts …
[InTime News] A youth weightlifting champion is among three men arrested in connection with the death of a 19-year-old on the island of Kefalonia, authorities said. The suspects – a 26-year-old local, a 22-year-old Albanian national, and a 23-year-old – allegedly used drugs with the young woman in a rented hotel room before she lost …
[File photo] US oil behemoth ExxonMobil, Energean and Greece’s biggest oil refiner Helleniq Energy will sign a contract on Wednesday with Stena Drilling to start exploratory drilling in a western Greek offshore block, Greece’s Energy Ministry said on Tuesday. Last year, ExxonMobil, Energean and Helleniq Energy announced an agreement to explore for natural gas in …
The Greek stock market returned on Tuesday to levels it had climbed to last Wednesday, before Thursday’s decline, with genuine hope that talks between US and Iran will resume later in the week. The drop in oil rates has also helped improve the morale of investors at Athinon Avenue, after the Easter holidays. There was …
Police border guards patrol along a border wall near the town of Feres, along the Evros River which forms the the frontier between Greece and Turkey. [Petros Giannakouris/AP] The Ministry of Citizen Protection has rejected a BBC report claiming that police in Greece have been recruiting migrants to violently push other migrants back across its …
[EPA] Two Greek tourists – a man and a woman – have been arrested in Istanbul after allegedly unfurling a Greek flag inside Hagia Sophia and recording the act on video, according to Turkish media reports. The plain cross Greek flag bore a double-headed Byzantine eagle and the inscription “Orthodoxy or death,” Turkish outlets said. …
Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis arrives for a meeting of eurozone finance ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, March 9, 2026. [Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Photo] Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has delivered a stark warning about the scale of the ongoing energy disruption triggered by the war in Iran, describing it as potentially the …
In this photo taken November 15, 2016, students line up outside a classroom with a map of Africa on its wall, in Yei, in southern South Sudan. [Justin Lynch/AP Photo] Two arms brokers, one of whom is Greek, arranged illegal deals to supply ex-Soviet surface-to-air missile systems to South Sudan and fighter jets to Libya …