Elena Becatoros

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NATO chief: no big Russian withdrawal near Ukraine

Elena Becatoros · October 15, 2014 2:36 pm

In this Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 photo, Turkish Prime Minister and presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a business meeting in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey holds its first direct presidential elections on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, when voters will be tasked with choosing between three candidates for the post, which until now has been largely ceremonial. The 60-year-old Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for the past decade, is widely expected to win, possibly even in the first round. A gifted public orator who grew up in a tough neighborhood of Istanbul, Erdogan leads the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party, or AKP, whose support base is the Turkish heartland. (AP Photo)

A look at Turkey’s presidential candidates

Elena Becatoros · August 8, 2014 10:23 am

In this Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 photo, Turkish Prime Minister and presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan salutes as addresses a business meeting in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey holds its first direct presidential elections on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, when voters will be tasked with choosing between three candidates for the post, which until now has been largely ceremonial. The 60-year-old Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for the past decade, is widely expected to win, possibly even in the first round. A gifted public orator who grew up in a tough neighborhood of Istanbul, Erdogan leads the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party, or AKP, whose support base is the Turkish heartland. (AP Photo)

Divisive Erdogan favorite in Turkey president vote

Elena Becatoros · August 8, 2014 10:17 am

Turkey’s lopsided presidential election campaign

Elena Becatoros · August 6, 2014 10:17 am

Nikos Maziotis lays wounded on a sidewalk, with a wig on the left, after a shootout at the tourist area of Monastiraki in central Athens on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Greek police arrested one of the country's most wanted men, a fugitive convicted of terrorism, during a shootout Wednesday in Athens' central tourist district that left four people wounded, authorities said. Maziotis who has been on the run along with his wife Panagiota Roupa since 2012 following their release from jail after serving the maximum 18 months in pre-trial detention. (AP Photo/InTime News, Giannis Liakos) GREECE OUT

Greece: Terror arrest after tourist area shooting

Elena Becatoros · July 16, 2014 6:07 pm

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari arrives at an EU-Arab league Foreign Ministers summit in Athens, on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. In a stunning assault that exposed Iraq's eroding central authority, al-Qaida-inspired militants overran much of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing government buildings, pushing out security forces and capturing military vehicles as thousands of residents fled the second-largest city. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Iraq foreign minister: Iraq faces ‘mortal threat’

Elena Becatoros · June 11, 2014 1:03 pm

EU force in C. African Republic at 870 in June

Elena Becatoros · May 14, 2014 12:26 am

In this image released by the Greek Coast Guard, a stranded fishing boat carrying some 331 immigrants, including 40 children and 24 women, prior to being transferred to an oil tanker on Monday March 31, 2014, after the fishing boat made a distress call overnight. The transfer was overseen by the Greek Coast Guard and lasted several hours in moderate-to-rough seas between the islands of Crete and Kythira, the Merchant Marine Ministry said. (AP Photo/Hellenic Coast Guard)

Medical group slams migrant detention conditions

Elena Becatoros · April 1, 2014 6:18 pm

Greek prison hospital inmates on hunger strike

Greek prison hospital inmates on hunger strike

Elena Becatoros · February 24, 2014 8:48 pm

NATO head: Afghan security pact after elections

Elena Becatoros · February 20, 2014 10:04 pm

Yachts are seen knocked off their stands at a damaged dock after an earthquake in Lixouri on the island of Kefalonia, western Greece on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude between 5.7 and 6.1 hit the western Greek island of Kefalonia before dawn Monday, sending scared residents into the streets just over a week after a similar quake damaged hundreds of buildings, reviving memories of a disaster in the 1950s. (AP Photo)

Strong quake hits western Greek isle of Kefalonia

Elena Becatoros · February 3, 2014 2:22 pm

Activists from the Greek anti-austerity "I won't pay" group chant slogans during a rally to support protesting doctors, outside the Greek health ministry in Athens, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Striking doctors of the the Greek National Organization for Healthcare protested over the plans of the government to suspend jobs on cut down pay pending reassignment or layoffs. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece, creditors still in tough negotiations

Elena Becatoros · January 24, 2014 1:00 pm