The appeals council has decided to extending the pre-trial detention of members of the Golden Dawn, Christos Pappas and Yannis Lagos for another six months.

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced a few days ago that a 1,500 year-old Byzantine monastery with large floor mosaics has been discovered near a Bedouin village by the name of Hura, in the Negev Desert, near Horbat Hur, a Byzantine settlement.

The son of former cabinet secretary general Panos Baltakos, coast guard frogman, Dimitris Baltakos, turned himself in, at Coast Guard headquarters, Friday morning.