JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Pro-Palestinian activists on a French yacht which sailed from a Greek island at the weekend are expected to reach the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, organisers said, but Israel warned the ship will be stopped.
The Dignite/Al Karama left the Greek island of Kastellorizo late on Saturday following a troubled stay in Greece after Athens imposed a ban on the departure [...]
ATHENS (AFP) - (AFP) - A French yacht carrying activists hoping to run the Israeli blockade on Gaza has sailed to Egypt after a troubled stay in Greece, the Greek coastguard said late on Saturday.
The Dignite/Al Karama sailed to the Egyptian port of Alexandria from the tiny Greek island of Kastellorizo, where it had berthed for the past few days, the coastguard said.
While there, it was preven [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Visiting Greek President Karolos Papoulias met with Israeli leaders on Monday, as long-frosty relations between the two Mediterranean nations reach new heights of cooperation.
Papoulias's three-day trip, which will also take him briefly to the Palestinian territories, comes a week after Athens effectively prevented a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists fr [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - A lone French yacht with 12 people on board was on Wednesday the only vessel from a 10-ship flotilla to be heading for the Gaza Strip after the remaining vessels were tied up by red tape in Greece.
The MV Dignite/Al Karama, which left Greek waters early on Tuesday, was heading slowly towards Gaza, a spokesman for the French Boat to Gaza campaign told AFP, saying they h [...]
ATHENS (AFP) - (AFP) - Greece tried to appease furious activists after halting a flotilla bound for Gaza, offering to deliver aid "through existing channels" and reaching out to the Palestinian Authority Sunday.
"Greece... proposes to undertake the task of transporting the humanitarian aid, with Greek vessels or other appropriate means, through the existing channels" as requested by [...]
ATHENS (AFP) - (AFP) - Coastguard officials intercepted a US vessel Friday after it tried to sail from port -- in defiance of a Greek ban -- to challenge Israel's naval blockade on Gaza, an activist on board said.
The Audacity of Hope set sail for Gaza without warning, leaving behind nine other ships in a pro-Palestinian international flotilla.
"The captain is speaking to the coast [...]
ATHENS (AFP) - (AFP) - Hundreds of activists are preparing to board aid ships bound for Gaza this week in defiance of an Israeli blockade and UN warnings and in spite of the violent end to an operation last year which left nine dead.
About 350 pro-Palestinian supporters hailing from 22 countries are set to join the "Freedom Flotilla" leaving from Greek ports.
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DAMASCUS (AFP) - Ansaldo Energia, a unit of Italy's Finmecannica, and Greece's Metka, part of Mytilineos Holdings, are to build a gas-powered electricity generating plant in Syria, the press reported on Friday.
The 750-megawatt facility, costing some 700 million euros (973 million dollars), is to be built in the northeastern province of Deir-Ezzor.
Around 80 percent of the project is to [...]
SKOPJE (AFP) - Syria has become the 129th country to recognise Macedonia under its constitutional name Republic of Macedonia despite the long-running name dispute with Greece, the two countries said Friday.
According to a joint statement Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki and his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem said they had established diplomatic ties to open "more oppo [...]
ATHENS (AFP) - Greece moved Wednesday to reassure Arab allies over the strength of its friendship, following an improvement in ties with Israel after a landmark visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Improved Greek-Israeli ties were "for the good of Greece and all of the Middle East region... and do not exclude our close cooperation with the Arab world, and particularly our Palestini [...]
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