While Cyprus has become a key US partner in the Eastern Mediterranean, there is still a partial arms embargo on Cyprus as US law currently prohibits providing Cyprus with US-made weaponry.
Every afternoon, a party made up of painters Nikos Nikolaou and Yiannis Moralis, sculptor Christos Kapralos, and poet, essayist and translator Odysseas Elytis met at Nikolaou’s house in Plakakia, on the Saronic island of Aegina, sat on the stone terrace and enjoyed the sunset. “They ate, they drank and they argued passionately, teasing each other.…
A 54-year-old man who suffered burns to 60% of his body at the wildfire in Gerakas, east Attica, is in “serious but stable condition,” the hospital where he is being treated said on Thursday.
A 28-year-old man was expected to be led before a prosecutor in Thessaloniki on Thursday after he was arrested for rape and violation of drug laws, police said.
The general meeting of National Bank of Greece shareholders will be asked to approve the transfer of the card acceptance and clearing activity to the new company established under the name NBG Pay.
Greek authorities are speeding up efforts to implement a new out-of-court mechanism for debt settlement, with loans worth more than 20 billion euros currently at an advanced stage of the mechanism.
As the day dawned on Thursday, the Fire Service said there were no active fronts in the main three wildfires that broke out on Mount Penteli, north of Athens, Megara in west Attica and the island of Salamina, but water bombers have been deployed to prevent any flare-ups.
Russian gas resumed flowing through the biggest pipeline between Russia and Germany on Thursday after a 10-day outage, the operator said, easing concerns that a maintenance period would be extended.
Given the possibility of a complete cut-off of Russian natural gas in the coming winter, Greece’s Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) has drafted a series of emergency measures to prevent a nationwide blackout.
Disaster has been averted at Netflix.