US Senator and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Bob Menendez, has given the green light for the sale of Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 fighter jets to Greece, as he said at the Delphi Economic Forum, in Washington.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurred shortly before 1 p.m. in the northern Halkidiki region, according to the Seismological Station of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
A search and rescue operation for missing migrants and refugees by the Coast Guard is still ongoing today, Sunday, after the body of a woman and a child were recovered at sea southeast of Leros island following the capsizing of a boat carrying illegal migrants and refugees.
Privatizations agency TAIPED has received eight expressions of interest in the sale of a majority stake in the port of Volos, as was announced on Friday.
One of the two pilots aboard the F-4 Phantom fighter jet that crashed in the Ionian Sea on Monday was found dead. According to the Hellenic Air Force, the search to find the second pilot is ongoing.
The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis left for Tokyo, Japan, right after the conclusion of the confidence vote at the Hellenic Parliament, aiming to develop and improve bilateral relations and to consolidate collaboration between the two nations. It is the first time in 17 years that a Greek Prime Minister visits Japan.
Greece’s government survived, today, a vote of no confidence put forward by the leftist opposition over a wiretapping scandal targeting politicians, army top brass and journalists.