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Stefanos Tsitsipas saw his first-round match in the Olympic tennis tournament go to three sets (lasting almost 2.5 hours), but all’s well that ends. The Greek champion defeated Belgian Zizou Bergs, who had the crowd on his side, 2-1, and advanced to the second round of the Olympic Games, where he will face Briton Evans.

The Environment Ministry is to resurrect the plan for the partial diversion of Acheloos River in Epirus, western Greece, the implementation of which has been annulled five times by the Council of State.

The project will be included in the water management plan of Thessaly and deemed as necessary to cover part of the water deficit.

Venezuela formally launched its new oil-backed cryptocurrency on Tuesday in an unconventional bid to haul itself out of a deepening economic crisis, reported AFP.

The leftist Caracas government put 38.4 million units of the world's first state-backed digital currency, the Petro, on private pre-sale from the early hours.