Two high school students from Ioannina were distinguished for their scientific work as they took the bronze medal in the category of Engineering at the 25th International Conference of Young Scientists 2018, which was held from 19 to 24 April in Serbia. Specifically, Paraskevi-Marina Kandreli and Konstantinos Lolos were selected in the 12-member team that represented Greece.

“We do not forget the shameful crime and its victims”, stated the Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in his message on the Pontic Genocide Memorial Day (May 19th) and called for the perpetrators of the crime, even now, to ask to be forgiven.

American lawmakers have introduced a new bipartisan bill seeking to ban F-35 deliveries to an "increasingly hostile and authoritarian" Turkey, partly because of Ankara's decision to purchase Russia's missile defense systems.