A 36-year-old Georgian national arrested on suspicion of spying on a US naval base on Crete is being held on charges of illegal entry and stay in Greece, while authorities wait to assess evidence of espionage collected by the country’s intelligence agency EYP. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1296836...

Greece has set up a ⁠plan ⁠to repatriate ​thousands of its ⁠nationals stranded ⁠in ‌the ⁠Middle East amid ​a widening ‌Iran conflict but their ​return is ‌difficult as the airspace ​over the ⁠region ‌remains closed, ​PM ‌Mitsotakis ⁠said ⁠on ​Tuesday. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Reuters: Britain has yet to decide whether it will send a warship to defend its Royal Air Force Akrotiri ⁠base in Cyprus, ⁠a source close to the matter said on Tuesday, ​after the Times newspaper ⁠reported ministers had discussed such a deployment. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Greece is not participating in any military operations against Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lana Zochiou said Tuesday. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information say the Trump administration’s assertions about threats from Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong.

France will send anti-missile and anti-drone systems to Cyprus, as the U.S.-Israel-Iran war heightens tensions in the Middle East, two senior Cypriot government officials have told POLITICO.

A 36-year-old Georgian national arrested on suspicion of spying on a US naval base on Crete is being held on charges of illegal stay in the country, while authorities await for evidence from Greece’s intelligence agency to detain him over the main accusation. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1296836...

History nugget: Kimon, the Hellenic Navy’s new FDI-class frigate which is sailing toward Cyprus, is named after the Athenian general Kimon, son of Miltiades, who also sailed to Cyprus in 450 BC with 200 warships to fight the Persians in the Greco-Persian Wars (which didn't end well for him).

Greek authorities arrested a Georgian national for suspected espionage linked to the NATO Souda naval base in Crete. The man was allegedly communicating with people in Iran, while numerous photos from the Navy station were found on his phone. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/129...

Greek foreign minister George Gerapetritis has said there is “no danger at the moment” to US facilities in Greece, including the naval base at Souda, Crete, but stressed that authorities are taking measures amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Cyprus’ government has confirmed that *four* (not 2, as initially reported) Greek F-16 aircraft have landed on the island, following a request to Athens. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Bomb shelters cannot accommodate even half the population

This is the whole reason the UN Charter exists. Because before it, you could invoke any random ancient grievance as a reason for war, which was a recipe for endless war and suffering. But I guess avoiding endless war is woke now, and bombing girls’ schools is manly.

🚨 Significant announcement from Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam who has announced a ban on all "security and military activities by Hezbollah," deeming them "illegal" and demanding that Hezbollah hand over its weapons to the Lebanese state. (1)

Greece is sending two frigates (one is its newest acquisition) and two F-16 fighter jets to Cyprus over mounting "security concerns," Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said Monday. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Sirens sound at UK's Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, Cypriot state TV says reut.rs/3MS4RVC

so when international lawyers say this entire operation is illegal, i think most of us (i don't know, I haven't surveyed) mean not only the resort to force in the first place (jus ad bellum) but the reckless - or in hegseth's rendering, lawless - application of that force (jus in bello).

A passenger air terminal in Paphos, Cyprus, was evacuated on Monday after a suspect object was picked up on radars, the Cyprus state broadcaster reported. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The Cyprus presidency has decided to postpone a meeting of EU affairs ministers in Lefkosia due to the flight disruption and delays caused by a “single, isolated incident of a UAV (drone) that targeted the British base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, with some limited damage.”

Reuters: British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper said on Monday that ⁠the ⁠United ​States had not asked ⁠to use a ⁠British ‌military ⁠base in #Cyprus ​where an ‌unmanned drone strike hit a runaway overnight. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Tempe train crash, three years on: At which stage are the various judicial proceedings on Greece’s biggest railway disaster, and who has been indicted? #Tempe www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/129...

Souda Naval Base in Crete, the largest and most prominent NATO naval base in the eastern Mediterranean, been placed on heightened alert and access to non-authorized personnel has been suspended following #Iran’s threat to strike #US installations. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Keir Starmer says he has given the USA permission to use British military bases for 'defensive' actions He also explains he counts bombing Iran as a defensive action

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Cyprus confirms a drone attack targeted a British air base on the island nation’s southern coastline. The attack involved an “unmanned drone which caused limited damage.” The suspected drone strike occurred after the British Prime Minister said the U.K. would help the U.S. in the war against Iran.

Παρά τις εξαγγελίες ο ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ εξακολουθεί να μοιράζει ευρωπαϊκες αγροτικές επιδοτήσεις σε 28 νομούς εκτός Κρήτης σε Κρητικούς καθώς και βοσκοτόπια χωρίς την παραγωγή κρέατος ή γάλακτος www.kathimerini.gr/society/repo...

Iran's supreme leader Khamenei killed, Iranian state media confirm reut.rs/4cTPLcC

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Tiniest violins for the many European tax exiles and gangsters who never quite understood how much of a geopolitical house of cards the UAE is

Αυτό κρατάω από το στορι: "Τρία χρόνια μετά την τραγωδία των Τεμπών και ακόμη περισσότερα από άλλες (Μάτι, Μάνδρα), δεν υπάρχει ακόμη θεσμικό ιατρικό πρωτόκολλο για την οργανωμένη ψυχολογική υποστήριξη επιζώντων σε δυστυχήματα μεγάλης κλίμακας." #Τεμπη www.kathimerini.gr/society/repo...

Tens of thousands of Greeks rallied in Athens and other cities on Saturday to mark the anniversary of a 2023 train crash, the country’s deadliest rail disaster in history, demanding justice ahead of a criminal trial set to begin next month. #tempe www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...

Greece has acquired long-lost photos of Nazis’ May Day executions. #history #WWII www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1296...

"The developments in Iran"

Why I said we need anti-surveillance laws not privacy laws... this isn't ok just because they 'anonymised' the data.

We obtained the first publicly released satellite image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran, after it was struck by Israel/US. There are several destroyed buildings. Current whereabouts of Iran's supreme leader are unknown; compound used as his official residence. 🛰️📸: @airbus.com

Big corporations. Big influence. An EU law meant to hold corporations accountable for human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains (CS3D) has been heavily stripped back after pressure from a secret U.S. lobbying group of 11 multinationals, including ExxonMobil and Honeywell.

Breaking news: The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, according to American and Israeli officials, as large explosions resounded in Tehran.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that she will start to “provisionally implement” a massive trade deal with the Mercosur bloc of nations in South America despite not having approval from European Parliament.

Ex-top Israeli οfficer and Intellexa founder convicted in Greek spyware case www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Η πέμπτη και ίσως κρισιμότερη έρευνα που αναμένεται να ανοίξει είναι αυτή που αφορά στην αξιολόγηση ποινικών ευθυνών προσώπων, τα οποία είχαν πλήρη εικόνα όσων συνέβαιναν και θα ελεγχθούν για το αδίκημα της κατασκοπείας τουλάχιστον στην πλημμεληματική του μορφή. www.kathimerini.gr/society/5640...

The Greek court's sentencing of the 4 defendants (two Israelis and two Greeks) and, more importantly, its decision to order 5 more relevant inquiries shows it recognized that the case is much bigger than the official investigation suggested. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1296410...

Greece’s dep. transport minister made the outrageous claim that unknown individuals “sabotaged” a section of the country’s railway, allegedly in a bid to cause a new deadly accident. Police dismissed the claims saying the damage was caused by scrap metal thieves. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1296351...

Exclusive: The Washington Post lost more than $100 million last year, according to people familiar with the matter, financial troubles that contributed to its decision to cut staff by 30% earlier this month.

Four people linked to sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa were found guilty of violating the confidentiality of telephone communications in a case involving the illegal wiretapping of politicians, journalists, business leaders+senior military officials. #Predator www.ekathimerini.com/news/1296353...

This report seems to be a fair and accurate account of the current state of play: zoonosis, probably from the Wuhan market, the most likely origin; an accidental lab leak can't be excluded; relevant information still not being supplied by authorities; ... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

Long-anticipated flooding along the Evros river has inundated vast farmland and highlighted the chronic challenges of managing a transboundary waterway shared by Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...