Nikos Dendias is taking over duties as the new minister of defense, as current incumbent Dimitris Avramopoulos is leaving the job to become commissioner in Brussels, starting tomorrow 1 November.

Defense minister Avramopoulos and NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg together watched the military exercise Pyrpolitis that took place in the Saronic Gulf.

Devastated, weeping, pale faces and a deep gloom was overflowing particularly from the family of Alexia Alexiadou dominated the last farewell of the 41 year old chef, this afternoon at the cemetery of Nea Eritrea.