The 4.0-billion-euro joint investment fund agreed last May between Greece and the United Arabs Emirates (UAE) is expected to stimulate significant investment interest from the UAE, its economy minister has told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.
The American Hellenic Institute will host a virtual event on September 28 as part of its wider Virtual Speakers Forum entitled “The Enduring Lessons from the Burning of Smyrna and the Turkish Genocide of Anatolian Hellenism: 100 Years of Turkish Denial and Distortion.”
A bank in the Athens suburb of Moschato was robbed at gunpoint on Monday afternoon.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou attended the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on Monday which was followed by an event hosted by the British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley.
An 85-year-old man from Ioannina that had gone missing on Friday was found dead on Monday by members of the Hellenic Service and the police. According to national broadcaster ERT, his body was found near the area where he went missing.
A 27-year-old man that was arrested on Saturday during a violent clash between riot police and concertgoers on the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki campus was found innocent on Monday. The man was facing charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.
A court in the town of Chania, Crete, convicted on Monday a 53-year-old woman to two years and five months in jail and ordered her to pay 180 euros for injuring her partner with a knife during a fight. The prison sentence was suspended.
A fire broke out on Monday afternoon in the Touloupa Hani region of Messinia in the Peloponnese. According to the Hellenic Fire Service, the blaze is burning in an area of cultivated forests.
The northeastern port of Alexandroupoli is fast becoming a “second Souda” – a reference to the major Greek and NATO naval base on the island of Crete.