The flows of refugees and illegal immigrants to the Greek islands increased in June compared with the corresponding months and in 2018 and 2017.

An important and very rare ‘Sacred Road’ has been unearthed by archaeologists in western Turkey.

The newly-appointed Greek Minister of Defence, Nikos Panagiotopoulos stressed that his top priority would be to reinforce the country’s deterrent power and readiness of its armed forces, during the official handing over of the Ministry by the outgoing Minister Evangelos Apostolakis.