Archimandrite Symeon Papadopoulos has been elected the new Abbot and Archbishop of the historic Monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai, following a vote by the members of the Sinai Brotherhood in Egypt.
Greece has submitted a letter to the United Nations rejecting Libya’s recent claims over maritime zones, which Athens says are based on the Turkey-Libya Memorandum, regarded as illegal by the Greek government because it disregards the existence and rights of Greek islands.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday said the participation of Chevron and Helleniq Energy in an international tender for four offshore blocks south of Crete and the Peloponnese constitutes de facto recognition of Greece’s sovereign rights in the area.
Metro, tram, and bus services in the greater Athens area began, on Saturday, operating round the clock on a weekly basis, offering passengers, especially young people, a safer way home after their Saturday nights out.
The new school year began with concern for the three remaining Greek schools in Istanbul. At the Patriarchal Great School of the Nation, the oldest operating Greek school, no new students enrolled in the first grade of high school.
An Israeli strike on a meeting of Hamas officials in Qatar has cast a cloud of growing concern across Turkey that it could be the next target.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hosted a meeting on Friday at his office on “The Future of Artificial Intelligence,” with the participation, among others, of Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.
Opposition leader Nikos Androulakis, head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) promised wholesale change in a speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair Saturday.
Two boys, aged 14 and 15, were charged with insulting, beating, and threatening a 15-year-old with a pocket knife in the Oraiokastro area of Thessaloniki. They are also accused of filming the assaults on a mobile phone and posting the videos online.
Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (ADMIE) has become a member of GO15, the association of the world’s largest Transmission System Operators (TSOs).