The '2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture' program kicks off with a weekend of special opening events, at the coastal front of Elefsina, west Attica, on Saturday, February 4.
US Embassy in Athens Charge d' Affaires Maria Olson and US State Department Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs Josh Huck paid a visit to Alexandroupolis on Tuesday, and met with local government officials.
New bellicose outburst by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan against the West, in a speech addressed to his parliamentary group, saying that Western countries are overlooking Turkish achievements in the fields of energy, defense industry, and new technology.
Greece and Israel have forged an enduring partnership at a strategic level, which is based on their common interests and converging perspectives on many challenges, as well as a shared respect for an international order that is based on international rules and a shared vision for their neighborhood, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday in joint statements with his Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, after their meeting in Jerusalem.
Credit ratings agency Fitch on Monday raised the credit rating of three major Greek banks, Eurobank, National Bank of Greece and Alpha Bank, after upgrading the credit rating of Greece's economy to one notch below investment grade last Friday.
Turkey is once again "distorting reality in order to serve other purposes and certainly not to promote the rights and welfare of the Muslim Minority in Thrace," the Greek foreign ministry commented in an announcement on Sunday, in response to Turkish posts concerning the minority in Greece.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida at the prime minister's residence in Tokyo, where they signed a Joint Statement of Strategic Cooperation between Greece and Japan.
One of the two pilots of the Phantom F-4 of the Air Force that crashed at noon off Andravida was found dead.
The search for the second operator continues.
Earlier, the first wreckage of the Phantom F-4 had been identified.
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On Monday, January 30, 2023, at 10:30 a.m., a two-seater F-4 Phantom II aircraft of the 338th Squadron of the 117th Fighter Wing, which was performing a training flight, crashed into the sea area 25 nautical miles south of Andravidas airport, resulting in the fatal injury of the co-pilot, Sub-Commander (I) Marios – Michael Turoutsika, 29 years old. Investigations continue for the captain, Sminagos (I) Efstathios Tsitlakidis, 31 years old.
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According to information, the plane, together with another flying in a pair, were performing a low navigation flight, i.e. they were flying at an extremely low altitude, over the terrain but also over the water.
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Under as yet unknown circumstances, possibly due to an irreparable technical failure, they informed and were instructed to abandon the aircraft.
However, as iefimerida.gr wrote earlier, it was unclear if the two pilots managed to use the automatic launch system. The two-seater F-4 fighter aircraft of the Air Force crashed in a sea area 25 nautical miles south of Andravida.
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With an eye on the elections, Tayyip Erdoğan is not stopping provocations against Greece. This time in his speech he celebrated the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, characterizing it as a second fall.
Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Australian Open final, swept Katsanov 3-1 and is preparing for the biggest challenge of his career!
The eyes of the government financial staff are focused on Greece's meeting with the Fitch rating agency today. Some analysts are not ruling out an upgrade to 'BB+', although the odds are leaning towards the ratings agency waiting until national elections, which are scheduled to be held by July. The government has set a target for the upgrade within 2023 and analysts' expectations put the time frame after the summer as the target. The main reason is the increased likelihood of consecutive elections due to the change in the electoral system, which increases electoral uncertainty and scenarios for a third round at the polls.
The effervescent star of world cinema Monica Bellucci was at a function at the Consulate General of Greece in New York.
Greece's first-ever pharmaceutical cannabis production plant was inaugurated at Examilia, in Corinth, on Thursday.
