Greece came first in the list of the best beach holiday destinations for 2019 in a vote of Russia's National Geographic Traveler magazine and website.

Austrian Airlines has scheduled up to 70 flights per week to 19 destinations in Greece next summer, 12 more than in 2019. After almost a five-year break, the Austrian operator will begin direct flights from Vienna to Kavala and Samos, adding to other Greek destinations.

Greece and Cyprus respond to Turkish provocations with a firm stance aiming at ending the Turkish occupation to Cyprus, parliament president Konstantinos Tasoulas said on Friday welcoming the president of Cyprus' Movement for Social Democracy (EDEK) party, Marinos Sizopoulos.