Bulgaria plans to lift the obligatory Covid-19 “green certificate” for entry to restaurants, shopping malls and other public venues from March 20 as coronavirus infections ease, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said on Monday.
Greece-based Empire Navigation is investigating whether Iranian oil was transferred onto one of the vessels it manages, the company said in a statement, after a US advocacy group first made such allegations last week.
The head of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Monday it is “deeply concerned” by the increasing number of incidents of violence and “serious human rights violations” against refugees and migrants at various European borders.
Rescuers in northern Greece are continuing to search for a man who is missing since the boat he was travelling in capsized on Sunday midnight on a lake.
Odessa was a cradle of the Greek War of Independence. The old building of the Filiki Etairia is still open to visitors in the downtown area of the city, currently serving as the home of the Hellenic Foundation.
Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority on Monday said it was backing down from a contentious plan to encompass Christian holy sites on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives in a national park following vociferous outcry from major churches.
Energy transition website Uswitch.com has announced that Athens is experiencing the biggest improvement in air quality among European capitals with a 34.85% drop in air pollutants from 2019 to 2021.
Three suspects were arrested Monday in connection with the murder of a 73-year-old man whose body was found in a rural area of Messinia, southern Greece, on Saturday afternoon.
New cases of Covid-19 jumped to 18,094 in Greece on Monday, after a low of 9,596 on Sunday when there is significantly less testing, but deaths rose to 88 from 67 the day before, new data showed.
Greek and Turkish officials on Monday discussed trade and business relations, the prospects of cooperation in transport and telecommunications, as well as the strengthening of cooperation in addressing environmental challenges, during a meeting in Athens in the context of the Positive Agenda between the two countries.