The awards honor general managers of first class and luxury hotels of international reputation who distinguished themselves for excellence in quality, implementation of new strategies, financial improvement, ethical foundation of the profession, staff management and motivation.

A compact desalination plant will be placed in Gavdos, by “Symplefsis”, a group of volunteers from Athens.

The way Egypt is dealing with delineating the Greek-Cyprus-Egypt Exclusive Economic Zone "is exemplary," President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Thursday, after a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo, unlike the way other countries do that creates problems (implying Turkey).

At least one person was killed and a second was taken to hospital in critical condition as a result of a major fire that broke out inside an abandoned factory in Volos, just before 13:00 on Thursday.