Ten Greek-flagged merchant ships with 85 Greek seamen on board are in the Persian Gulf, inside the Strait of Hormuz amid the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, Greece’s minister for shipping said Monday.
Greece’s defensive shield is set to receive a significant boost Monday when French President Emmanuel Macron will, as sources have told Kathimerini, designate it among eight European nations placed under his country’s “nuclear umbrella.”
Sirens went off at Britain’s RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus shortly after midday on Monday, hours after it was hit by an unmanned drone, Cyprus’s state TV CyBC reported.
A passenger air terminal in Paphos, Cyprus, was evacuated on Monday after a suspect object was picked up on radars, the Cyprus state broadcaster reported.
Eurozone manufacturing expanded at its fastest pace in nearly four years last month as new orders bounced and factory output rose although rising cost pressures squeezed margins, a survey showed on Monday.
About one in 136 motorists failed their breathalyser tests during targeted drink driving tests in the Greater Athens region over the past four days, police said Monday.
Two unmanned drones heading towards RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus were “succesfully intercepted,” Cyprus government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis wrote on X.
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.