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At least two people were killed off Turkey's Aegean coast after a small boat carrying migrants suffered an engine failure, local authorities said on Friday. Rescue teams were dispatched to search for six missing people who fell off the rubber dinghy near the tourism hotspot of Bodrum, the Turkish coastguard said. The four others have yet to be found. Fourteen people were brought to safety. The coastguard said it received a request for help early Friday that a boat believed to be carrying 20 people was drifting off Bodrum after the engine failure. Bodrum, like most of the rest of Turkish Aegean...
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Missile attacks twice damaged a Marshall Islands-flagged, Greek-owned ship Tuesday in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, with a private security firm saying radio traffic suggested the vessel took on water after being struck. No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on Yemen's Houthi rebels, who have launched a number of attacks targeting ships over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The first attack on the bulk carrier Laax happened off the port city of Hodeida in the southern Red Sea, near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that links it to the Gulf of Aden, according to the UK milit...
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For the third year, the Dutch non-profit organisation Healthy Seas returned to the Greek island of Ithaca to reclaim waters polluted and rendered dangerous by abandoned fish farms. The island has two "ghost farms" that have sat abandoned for more than a decade. They release debris, plastics, and pollutants into the marine environment, disrupting ecosystems and endangering flora and fauna. Watch the full report in the player above to find out more.
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The delivery of three new Belharra-class frigates to the Greek Navy, set to enhance the country’s defensive capabilities and strengthen defence cooperation with France at sea, is reportedly progressing as planned and within the expected timeframe. Two of the frigates have been launched and are currently undergoing sea trials before being handed over to Greece, while the third had its keel attached just this April. Frigates will not be ready for service until 2025 and 2026. Parts of the ships are being built at the Salamis Shipyards, on the Greek island of Salamis, with the advanced defence tec...
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Greek public prosecutor Ekaterini Tsironi has dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year, telling the court Greece lacked jurisdiction. Shortly after the trial opened in the southern city of Kalamata, Tsironi recommended that the charges be dismissed, saying that Greek jurisdiction could not be established because the overcrowded trawler sank outside Greek territorial waters. Nine men were due to go on trial, accused of causing the worst migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea for ten years. Human rights groups had a...
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Greek 17-year-olds will be able to vote for the first time in the upcoming 2024 European elections. Three students from a school in Athens express their concerns and hopes for the continent in an interview with Euronews, ahead of the June poll. "It's a very good opportunity for us, as young people aged 17, to influence the direction of Europe. Through our votes, we can help reshape the European Parliament by electing representatives who better reflect our ideas and our will for Europe, the Europe that we want to see in the future," Simela Mavromati, a student in Athens, told Euronews. Star app...
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Just a year ago, a summit meeting of the leaders of Turkey and Greece would have created sensational news. But when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Ankara this week, it was almost a routine talk between neighbours. The meeting was their fourth in 10 months as the two leaders try to put an end to decades of mutual animosity by focusing on trade, tourism, energy and repairing cultural ties, among other areas. “In the critical area of migration, the cooperation between our two countries and especially between the police and the coast guard is paying off...
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The swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected President of North Macedonia, Gordana Davkova Siljanovska, caused an uproar in Athens, Brussels, and many other European capitals. Not because she is the first-ever female president of the country or because she just won a landslide victory. It also wasn't about something she said. Actually, it was about what she did not say. While taking her oath of office, President Davkova omitted the directional adjective "North" and said just "Macedonia" despite signing a formal oath under her country's constitutional name on the same day. Yet, given that she ...
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The leaders of Greece and Türkiye met on Monday for talks aimed at underlining their efforts to put aside decades-old disputes, but they also revealed deep divisions over the Israel-Hamas war. Speaking at a news conference in Ankara following the two-hour face-to-face summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan jumped on comments by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in which he described Hamas as a terrorist organisation. “I do not see Hamas as a terror group,” Erdogan said. “I see it as a group of people trying to protect their own land.” He said that Türkiye was currently treating ...
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Ahead of the EU elections, the current centre-right government in Greece maintain their popularity one year after the national elections. However, Prime minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis' Nea Demokratia, the European People Party's political affiliate in Greece, leads the polls among Greeks citizens, according to the Euronews superpoll. It comes ahead of the EU elections in June, predicting that the current centre-right Government will maintain its position It is an exception in European politics as almost all ruling political parties are set see losses, the opinion polls report. The moderate conse...
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