Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Greece tonight for an official visit at the invitation of his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis after wrapping up his participation at the BRICS summit in South Africa’s Johannesburg on Thursday.
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is offering a “do-over” for travellers whose trip to the holiday island of Rhodes was cancelled or cut short due to the country's wildfires, CNN reported.
Videos of the plane pouring water on a fire were posted on social media by the state broadcaster ERT. After that, it is seen falling into a mountainside and catching fire.
President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan congratulated, in a phone call, Kyriakos Mitsotakis on winning a second term as the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic.
The leader of Greece's centre-right New Democracy party, Mitsotakis, 55, emerged victorious with more power as his party registered resounding victory in Sunday's elections.
According to the Exit Poll, former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' New Democracy party is set to clinch a second term in office with a clear majority.
With most of the votes, Mitsotak's New Democracy party was 40.83 per cent of the votes, ahead of the left-wing Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras, which had 20.1 per cent.
People gathered outside the central Athens headquarters of Greek rail company Hellenic Train again on Thursday evening in a protest organized by student and worker unions.