Israeli and Greek leaders discussed expanding military ties on Tuesday including sharing military know-how and holding joint war games, officials said. “Israel” has been keen to expand ties with Greece as its relations with Turkey — another strategic Mediterranean partner — soured since an Israeli raid on a Turkish-backed aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to seek Mossad’s help on organizing his Greece visit as Israeli’s foreign ministry staff are currently on strike. Foreign ministry employees in Israel are on strike in protest at the low pay and benefits they receive compared with the Mossad, Shin Bet and other government agencies with [...]

A recent Israeli military helicopter crash in Romania reveals that Tel Aviv has operated other air exercises in European countries to prepare for “future wars.” An article published on Israeli media outlet Ynet on Thursday said that the European states “never know what hides behind the training sessions held” in their territories. Hungary, Romania, Greece, [...]

Demonstrators in Greece have delayed an Israeli flight bound for the occupied Palestinian territories for two hours seeking to protest the siege of the Gaza Strip. Members of the labor union of Greece gathered at Athens International Airport on Wednesday to condemn the “oppressive policies” adopted by Israel in dealing with the impoverished people of [...]

As part of its bid to impede pro-Palestinian relief efforts, Israel says it has blocked an attempt by Libya to deliver aid to the besieged residents of the Gaza Strip. The Moldova-flagged cargo ship, the Amalthea, organized by the Tripoli-based Gaddafi International Charity and Development Association, was scheduled to depart from Greece to break the [...]

A charity ship sent by Libya to the Gaza Strip will be heading from Greece to Gaza in an attempt to break the illegal Israeli siege on the coastal region to deliver humanitarian supplies. The aid ship is head by the son of Libyan president, Moammar Gaddafi. It will be sailing from Lavrio Port in [...]

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called on Macedonia to pave the way to join the alliance by resolving the dispute with Greece over its name. “If Macedonia wants to join NATO the invitation will be sent immediately after a solution to the problem with the name,” Rasmussen said on Friday after a meeting [...]

Seeking to lighten the mood over Iran’s nuclear program, Greece and Sweden have called for the implementation of the recent Tehran declaration on a potential nuclear fuel swap. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt called for the implementation of the Tehran nuclear declaration in a telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign [...]

Greece, Spain and Sweden have summoned Israeli envoys to explain a deadly strike by Israeli navy commandos on a Turkish-sponsored humanitarian Gaza aid convoy. The Greek foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that it had summoned Israeli ambassador, demanding an “immediate” report on the safety of about 30 Greek citizens on board the [...]

The organizers of the Freedom Flotilla convoy said Saturday that Israel’s intimidation tactics will not stop aid boats from sailing to the besieged Gaza Strip, announcing that Rachel Corrie cargo ship, one of eight vessels, had already set sail from Ireland en route to the Mediterranean sea. There are other seven ships from Turkey, Greece, [...]

Minister of Culture and the Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini will address the closing ceremony of the 23rd International Unity Conference to be wrapped up in Tehran on Thursday evening. The conference opened in Tehran on the theme of “Islamic Ummah from Variation of Religions to Sectarianism” on March 2. Almost 500 scholars from various religions [...]

An international aid convoy is scheduled to take humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip from London, marking the first year anniversary of Israel’s three week war against Gazans. The Viva Palestina convoy of 250 vehicles will deliver medical, humanitarian and educational aid to Palestinians who are suffering a long-running Israeli blockade on their territory since [...]

Iran came first in the third round of International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) for high school students receiving four gold, two silver and one bronze medals. India finished with the second claiming two gold, two silver and one bronze medals. The Olympiad began last Sunday with the presence of students from Belarus, Indonesia, [...]

IRI deputy culture minister for press affairs, Alireza Malekian, said media war is the main war of the world today adding who is stronger in this field would be the eventual winner. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the 16th Press Festival in Tehran, he said unfortunately those media in present world which enjoy a [...]

Iran’s Isfahan University of Technology team has been awarded at the 2009 edition of the Formula Student competition in Silverstone, Britain. Headed by Mohsen Esfahanian and Ali-Reza Fadaei-Tehrani, the Iranian team received the first award of the Silverstone Circuit’s Class 3. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary) [...]