Greece

US-funded public broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) plans to terminate its Greek service as part of cost-cutting measures, it was announced Friday.

The last Greek-language broadcast, after 72 years of operation, will be aired on Tuesday, August 12, via Skai.

VOA’s Greek service had been covering Greece- and Cyprus-related events in the USA.

Government officials on Friday were said to be preparing for the potential impact of a Russian ban on food imports from the European Union despite earlier reports of reassurances from Moscow that many Greek products would be exempted from the embargo.

A 60-year-old man in Nea Selefkia, northwestern Greece, opened fire on two burglars inside his home Friday, injuring one of the two in the upper arm.

The two thieves, both Albanian nationals, escaped with an unspecified amount of jewelry, several cell phones, a camera, various personal documents and 700 euros in cash, before being netted by police.

Police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, said a 5-year-old boy was found safe in an abandoned car a few hours after a thief stole the vehicle.

The child’s father told police he had left the boy inside the car while he went into a shop at around 2.30 p.m. Friday.

Nikos Maziotis, the head of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group who is being held at Diavata Prison in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was on Friday taken to the city’s Papanikolaou Hospital for a medical check.

Maziotis sustained injuries to his right arm during a shootout with police in central Athens that led to his arrest last month and had to undergo surgery.

Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos has expressed concern about the failure to extend the truce in Gaza and said peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in Cairo should continue.

By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou

Police in Greece on alert after terrorist's capture

By Leonidas Stergiou

It is often said that there are two categories of investors interested in upmarket Greek real estate.

Greece’s hopes of agreeing an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Ionian Sea with Albania have been dealt another blow after the prosecutor’s office in Tirana launched an investigation into the agreement between the two countries.