Greek shipping companies are urged to send details of their vessels sailing through the Strait of Hormuz to Greece’s maritime ministry after Israeli attacks on Iran, a document by Greece’s shipping association, seen by Reuters, said on Friday.
Brighton has signed teenage forward Charalampos Kostoulas, who gave up a Champions League season with Olympiakos to play in the Premier League.
Government officials and industry leaders from more than 30 countries gathered in Athens on Wednesday for the “Shaping the Future of Shipping Summit,” co-hosted by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), and the Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS).
Seasonal firefighters protecting Greece’s islands from wildfires are sleeping in tents at campsites, unable to afford housing that tourism has priced beyond their reach.
Two children who were pulled unconscious from a river in northern Greece earlier this week have been declared brain dead, doctors said on Friday.
Greece’s top decision-making body on foreign and defense policy, KYSEA, will convene on Friday following the latest escalation in the Middle East, the government said.
Aegean Airlines canceled all flights to and from Tel Aviv on Friday following Israeli strikes on targets in Iran, the carrier said.
Nektaria Stamouli, the deputy editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English Edition and Politico’s Eastern Mediterranean correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis as we take a deeper dive into Greece’s current political landscape, from the ruling party to the fragmented opposition.
Airlines cleared out of the airspace over Israel, Iran, Iraq and Jordan on Friday, after Israel launched attacks on targets in Iran, Flightradar24 data showed, with carriers scrambling to divert and cancel flights to keep passengers and crew safe.
The prospects for strengthening bilateral relations, particularly in the fields of economy and defense, as well as broader European issues, were the focus of talks between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson in Stockholm on Thursday.