Recent U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have followed a familiar pattern: retaliation directed at targets linked to American military presence, primarily across bases in the Middle East. This raises a more distant but consequential question—could such a strategy extend to the Souda Naval Base in Crete, one of the most important U.S. and NATO installations in the Eastern Mediterranean?

Kimon Kouris will participate in the upcoming film “The Riders” starring Brad Pitt, which is currently being filmed in Greece.

While Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides was speaking yesterday at the European Council about the crisis in the Middle East, he received a message on his mobile phone about an alert at the British Bases in Akrotiri, giving him the opportunity to explain to the 26 EU leaders how directly the regional escalation in the Middle East affects Cyprus.

In yet another chapter of the shenanigans of Plefsi Eleftherias Party leader Zoe Konstantopoulou (which grants her judicial immunity) and her role as attorney for some families of the Tempi disaster victims, the Union of Judges and Prosecutors issued a harsh statement against her and Maria Karystianou, whom she represents, for what happened on Thursday at the Larissa courthouse, denouncing “Wild West scenes” and “fascist mentality.”