Greece’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to deliver a demarche requesting clarifications over the death of an ethnic Greek and the serious injury of two more in an incident involving Ukrainian soldiers in the country’s east near the front line of the conflict with pro-Russian separatist forces.
Main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras, head of the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, on Tuesday told parliament that his party supports the purchase of the new French frigates but is not prepared to give the government “carte blanche” regarding armaments spending.
Center-left ppposition party Movement for Change (KINAL) will vote in favor of the eight contracts making up a deal for the purchase of French frigates, Rafale fighter aircraft and submarine torpedoes, the head of the party’s parliamentary group Mihalis Katrinis said on Tuesday, during the plenary debate.
New cases of Covid-19 in Greece rose further to 21,412 on Tuesday from 20,361 the day before, the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) said in its daily bulletin.
Amid fears in the West that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent, Greeks were urged to leave the country on Monday while Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chaired a meeting to discuss the impact it could have on the economy and possible scenarios for ensuring the security and continuous supply of natural gas to Greece.
Port authority officers in Rhodes found 44 plastic bags containing an estimated 88,880 Captagon (amphetamine) pills during a patrol on the seaside resort of Kiotari, on the eastern coast of the island, on Monday afternoon.
A court in Iraklio on Crete on Tuesday committed a 53-year-old defendant to psychiatric care after he killed his mother acquitted him of the charges of murder and attempted murder on mental health grounds.
Greek hip-hop act Saske performs his thought-provoking and genre-bending riffs at Nigrita Prison for a music video project by the Onassis Foundation, being broadcast on its YouTube channel this Sunday.
Two people, including a police officer, were being investigated on Tuesday in connection with the suspected killing of a man in the east Attica suburb of Menidi.