The US is upgrading the role of Souda base, on Crete. Already there is an approved upgrading study of facilities with parallel approval of a financial package.

Images in Crete of the aftermath of the weather front “Oceanis” are indicative of the destruction the phenomenon left in its path.
A sheepherder who had gone missing on Monday has still not been located, while the magnitude of the catastrophe was highlighted by the statements made by the Mayor of Platanias, who said: “Even if an outside enemy had bombarded us, I do not think our infrastructure would have sustained so much damage”

Crete swept the prizes awarded during the Greek Travel Awards, which took place at the World Trade Center in Stockholm.