SYRIZA president Alexis Tsipras is campaigning in Crete with the catchphrase “vote for Greece or for Merkel”. In an island full of disenfranchised socialist voters who used to give PASOK party huge majorities in the 1980s and 1990s, Tsipras hopes that he can capture some of these votes.

The crew of HN frigate Psara celebrated Easter and the Resurrection in far away Dar-El-Salaam, Tanzania. The frigate is part of the EU operation “Atalanta” against piracy in the Horn of Africa.

Perambulating in the streets of Shanghai one hardly expects to be titilated by the wafting scents of mousaka, keftedes, and gyros drawing you to a Greek taverna, but that's what you'll find!