Athens-Macedonian News Agency

US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt has expressed Washington's commitment to supporting the Greek government as the country prepares to emerge from its international bailouts and underlined the importance of foreign investments to fuel the recovering economy.

Just a few days after the Eurogroup decision, the government is reverting to handout promises, as Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) on Tuesday that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has asked him to submit a study next month on alternative options for tax exemptions.

Greece's finance ministry will submit a report to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in July on the tax relief measures the government will implement in 2019, totaling 700 million euros, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said in an interview with state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency, published on Tuesday.

The weather took a turn for the worse on Tuesday, with rainfall exceeding 50 millimeters in many parts of the country.

There was serious flooding in Mandra, the western seaside town that was hard hit in last November's deadly floods.

The rain was also heavy in the prefecture of Magnesia, central Greece, where there were reports of serious flooding.

The weather took a turn for the worse on Tuesday, with rainfall exceeding 50 millimeters in many parts of the country. The rain was heaviest in the prefecture of Magnesia, central Greece, where there were reports of serious flooding. In the area of Kanalia, streams broke their banks and flooded around 30 homes while local roads were submerged.

The leader of the Moria community on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos entered the second day of a hunger strike on Monday to demand immediate action to ease overcrowding at the Moria reception and identification center, which is currently bursting at the seams with around 8,000 asylum seekers.

Ten months after the Agia Zoni II tanker sank in the Saronic Gulf, and following a widespread campaign to clean up tons of leaked fuel, local authorities say the sea and coastline have been depolluted.

The director-general of the United Nations office in Geneva, Michael Moller, insists that there there is a "good foundation" for talks to move forward to reunify the ethnically-divided island of Cyprus.

The state security agency is carrying out an investigation into Thursday's attack by anti-establishment activists on the downtown Athens office of conservative lawmaker Militiadis Varvitsiotis.

The attack against Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris on Saturday was "shameless and unethical," European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said on Monday, in a speech opening the 43rd Annual General Assembly of the Exporters' Association of Northern Greece (SEVE).