Two Hellenic Air Force pilots have died after their two-seat F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed during a display at the Athens Flying Week airshow in Tanagra, north of Athens, on Saturday afternoon. The pilots, who belonged to the 117th Combat Wing based at Andravida in western Greece, did not have time to activate their ejection seats before the aircraft went down.
Seeking to curb an "epidemic" of phone scams, Greece is set to reclassify the defrauding of elderly citizens as a felony offense, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis announced.
A new milestone has been reached in the shipbuilding programme of Navios, owned by Angeliki Frangou (pic), with Zhoushan Changhong International holding a steel-cutting ceremony for the company’s 11th 115,000-dwt crude oil and product tanker.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has delivered a pointed warning to Turkey, saying Ankara cannot maintain "an active threat of war" and challenges to Greek sovereignty while seeking closer ties with the European Union.