Cartoon by Ilias Makris (18/03/2022)
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The Athens offices of Amazon Web Services (AWS) were inaugurated on Friday, in the presence of US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis and General Manager of AWS Europe Public Sector Cameron Brooks.
Police in Bulgaria have detained former prime minister Boyko Borissov as part of an investigation into alleged blackmail dating back to 2014-2019, prosecutors said on Friday.
Wreck crews have completed the removal of burned vehicles and trucks from the second and fourth garages of the Euroferry Olympia, the passenger car ferry that was destroyed in a fire last month.
The Parliament of Ukraine thanked Greece on Friday for pledging to rebuild Mariupol’s maternity hospital, which was recently destroyed by Russian shelling.
The European Union’s southern countries called on Friday for the bloc to adopt common energy policies in the face of surging prices and the need to reduce dependency on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
Greece’s new French-made Rafale fighter jets will participate in this year’s military parade celebrating the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence on March 25.
The Greek capital – home to roughly a third of the country’s population – has come under pressure from the pandemic again after accounting on Friday for 7,876 new confirmed Covid-19 infections from a nationwide total of 23,621.
A former police officer convicted for the December 6, 2008 murder of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in central Athens was taken back to prison on Friday, following a decision by the Supreme Court challenging his early release.
Holding up vegetables and black flags, hundreds of protesting farmers blocked traffic in central Athens on Friday to demand that the government grant them additional concessions to cope with high energy costs.