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Greece and Turkey are two of NATO's oldest members, joining together in 1952, but their relationship and the tensions between them predate the alliance, and membership has done little to ease their disputes.

In recent years, ties between Athens and Ankara have deteriorated to the point that some believe a war could break out between them.

The countries occupy strategically important territory in southeastern Europe, and they field two of NATO's biggest militaries, making the stakes of a potential clash much higher.

Due to persistent tensions with Turkey, Greece has been one of the few NATO members to maintain defense expenditures above the alliance's 2%-of-GDP goal. Greece's defense spending in 2022 was the highest in the alliance as a share of GDP.

Elon Musk has just bought Twitter and made some big decisions related to changes in the platform. But, it seems that this is costing huge to employees. Some of the Twitter engineers have been asked to work 12 hours a day and seven days a week, according to information shared by CNBC sources. The managers at Twitter have told employees that they will have to work extra hours to meet Elon Musk's tight deadline for changes.

"Managers at Twitter have instructed some employees to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, in order to hit Musk's aggressive deadlines, according to internal communications," the report stated.

It’s become routine since Russia invaded Ukraine: President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak by phone whenever the U.S. announces a new package of military assistance for Kyiv.

But a phone call between the two leaders in June played out differently from previous ones, according to four people familiar with the call. Biden had barely finished telling Zelenskyy he’d just greenlighted another $1 billion in U.S. military assistance for Ukraine when Zelenskyy started listing all the additional help he needed and wasn’t getting. Biden lost his temper, the people familiar with the call said. The American people were being quite generous, and his administration and the U.S. military were working hard to help Ukraine, he said, raising his voice, and Zelenskyy could show a little more gratitude.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has assured to ensure Indian origin Tamil community in the hill country same facilities as other communities in the country.

Wickremesinghe also promised to appoint a committee to seek how best to integrate the Indian origin Tamils of hill country further into the Sri Lankan society.

The President on Sunday said this while attending an event in Colombo to accept a consignment of medicine donated by the Union Territory of Puducherry and people of India on the request of Ceylon Worker's Congress (CWC), a leading political party representing the Indian origin Tamils in central hills.

At a time when Rishi Sunak's appointment as the first Hindu Prime Minister of the UK is being viewed as a historic moment in Britain's political history, a Labour MP, with Indian origins has now ruffled feathers by claiming that Sunak's win as UK PM is not a win for Asian representation. The tweet by MP Nadia Whittome has now been deleted.

According to reports, Whittome was 'instructed' to remove the tweet. "Rishi Sunak as prime minister isn't a win for Asian representation. He's a multi-millionaire who, as chancellor, cut taxes on bank profits while overseeing the biggest drop in living standards since 1956. Black, white or Asian: if you work for a living, he is not on your side," she said in the now-deleted tweet.