12.00 News in brief
Tsipras is scheduled to travel to Istanbul on February 5 for a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He met with the President of the Cyprus Republic earlier this morning.
Commenting on the Prespa Agreement Nicos Anastasiades said: “You have shown courage and you gave an end to an unnecessary conflict that created a problem to the country for more than 30 years”.
Farmers continue industrial action. The Athens-Thessaloniki highway is closed in both directions at the Nikaia junction, in Larissa. 14 other blockades throughout the country are also in effect. Farmers of Aigialeia in the Peloponese will block the Athens Patras highway for two hours starting at this hour.
A blast of arctic-chilled air from the polar vortex brought dangerous, record-setting cold to a wide swath of the eastern US on Tuesday, stretching from the Dakotas through Maine, with snow expected as far south as Alabama and Georgia.
Cities in the midwest opened warming shelters as temperatures plummeted well below zero degrees Fahrenheit (-17.8C) . Regional governments closed hundreds of schools and airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights, including many to Atlanta days before the Super Bowl.
And the weather forecast…
Cloudy in Attica with occasional rain forecast later in the day. The temperature will reach a high of 15 degrees Celsius.
More news in brief at 1 o’clock.
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