Nearly 100 flights from Athens, mostly to the Middle East, have been canceled over the past three days amid global air transport disruptions following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran and Tehran’s retaliations.
Greece said Monday it will send two frigates and two F-16 fighter jets to Cyprus as security concerns escalate around the Mediterranean island.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias held a new meeting of top military officials Monday on developments ion the Middle East, the ministry said.
British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper said on Monday that the United States had not asked to use a British military base in Cyprus where an unmanned drone strike hit a runaway overnight.
Greek stocks tumbled nearly 4% at opening Monday following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
A meeting of the EU’s European affairs ministers, originally scheduled in Cyprus for Monday and Tuesday, was postponed after a drone struck Britain’s Royal Air Force base on the island overnight, a spokesperson for the Cypriot presidency said.
Police in northern Athens have arrested a motorist for driving his car at twice the speed limit and then breaking a string of driving regulations in a bid to evade pursuing officers.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has activated a total of ten emergency telephone lines to provide consular assistance to Greek citizens amid the latest escalation of violence in the Middle East.
Daedalus, Greece’s new supercomputer poised to transform the nation’s research and innovation landscape, is now entering the final phase of implementation.
The EU stands with its member states in the face of any threat, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in response to the drone strike that hit Britain’s Royal Air Force base of Akrotiri in Cyprus overnight.