ASTORIA – FAMA Theater Group New York presents ‘Deipno ton Ilithion’, based on the French comedy ‘The Dinner of Fools’ by Francis Veber, directed by Alexandros Ammohostianos, at the Hellenic Cultural Center in Astoria for six performances only, June 2-3, 9-10, and 16-17, 8 PM.

ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a populist with increasingly authoritarian tendencies, is scheduled to take the oath of office and start his third presidential term Saturday following his latest election win.

UNITED NATIONS — Warning of a new threat to global food security, the United Nations said Thursday that Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain at Black Sea ports in its campaign to get Kyiv to open a pipeline for a key ingredient of fertilizer to get to world markets.

NICOSIA — A court in Cyprus on Thursday gave a former bishop in the Greek Orthodox Church to a 12-month suspended sentence after he was found guilty of indecently assaulting a 16-year-old girl 42 years ago.

DENVER — Eric Lewis was not selected as one of the 12 referees who will work the NBA Finals between the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat, while the league continues to look into whether he used a Twitter account to defend himself and other officials from online critiques.

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans are seeking to make good on their campaign promise to rein in the IRS with cutbacks built into the debt ceiling and budget cuts package passed by Congress.

GRIMES, Iowa — Former President Donald Trump kept up a steady drumbeat of criticism of his chief rival Ron DeSantis on Thursday, jumping immediately on remarks by the Florida governor on the campaign trail to try to highlight his own strength as the leading GOP presidential candidate.

BRUSSELS - The European Commission sent Greece a reasoned opinion for failure to incorporate into nationa law the directive on on transparent and predictable working conditions (Directive EU 2019/1152) on Thursday.

ATHENS - SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras met on Thursday in Athens with representatives of Albania's ethnic Greek minority to discus the issue of the continued detention in Tirana of ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri, newly elected mayor of Himare.