The proposed 150 km Mediterranean cable will carry electricity from solar energy farms in Israel’s southern Negev desert to cities to the center and north, the Energy Ministry said. Also in the works is a link to networks across the sea in Cyprus and Greece.
A contingent of 20 firefighters, with ten tenders, are fighting a forest fire in the Almyros Gorge, west of the Cretan city of Iraklio. Firefighting authorities on the island have appealed to Cretan residents and visitors not to start fires in the countryside “for any reason.”
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Re-elected Parliament President Konstantinos Tasoulas has agreed to change the seating arrangements in the House after SYRIZA protested about the decision to place the lawmakers of the far-right Spartans between those of the leftist main opposition.
A Mixed Jury of Appeal in Thessaloniki upheld on Tuesday the two life sentences imposed on a 51-year-old university lecturer for the fatal poisoning by arsenic of his wife and her grandmother several years ago.
The Economy Ministry is in a race against time for changes to the civil servants’ salary system to be confirmed in the next few weeks.
Konstantinos Tasoulas was re-elected as President of the Parliament with 249 votes on Tuesday.
The European Union is considering a proposal for the Russian Agricultural Bank to set up a subsidiary to reconnect to the global financial network as a sop to Moscow, the Financial Times said on Monday.