The world’s biggest live music event, Eurovision Song Contest, will take place in Sweden in the second week of May with 37 participating countries, including Greece’s Marina Satti, who will perform “Zari,” an uplifting fusion of traditional, modern, and ethnographic elements.
A truck driver is expected to appear before a prosecutor after coast guard officers found 209 kilograms of cannabis in his vehicle as it arrived on a passenger ferry at the port of Igoumenitsa from Italy.
The “correct and fast administration of justice is an integral part of liberal democracy,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told MPs in the context of a debate on a new Justice Ministry bill, adding that his government wants to see cases “finalized within 600 to 650 days.”
Turkish tourists can now visit Leros, Lemnos, Kalymnos, Kastellorizo and Symi as of Tuesday part of the “visa express” program after the Aegean islands became part of the initiative.
The Psara frigate, which will replace Greece’s Hydra frigate in the Red Sea around the end of May, will be equipped with a new, even more powerful anti-drone system, Kathimerini understands.
The European Union will offer economic aid to Lebanon when the European Commission president and the Cypriot president jointly visit Beirut on Thursday, a Cypriot official has said.
Authorities have dropped criminal charges against dozens of international aid workers, ranging from spying to facilitating what authorities had called illegal entry into the country through the island of Lesvos, court documents showed on Tuesday.
An Egypt-bound flight from Scotland had to make an emergency landing in Crete on Monday evening due to unruly conduct by a pair of passengers.
The “Blue Homeland” doctrine which envisages Turkish influence over large swaths of the Mediterranean and other seas at the expense of other countries in the region, including Greece, will be taught during the next school year, local media revealed.
Police in Crete are investigating a shooting in which assailants riddled a car with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, injuring a man inside.