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Andreas Dorgiomanolakis shapes a terracotta pot in one of the last surviving ceramic workshops in Thrapsano, a village in Crete that had around 150 such workshops up until the 1970s. In the business since the age of 15, Dorgiomanolakis laments the lack of interest among the younger generations to take up the craft. "I fell in love with it through my grandfather," he told the AMNA.

Britain's foreign minister said Thursday that flexibility and compromise are key to making the most of a fresh United Nations bid to restart talks on resolving Cyprus' decades-old ethnic division.

The Office for the Support of Victims of Terrorism was formally inaugurated on Monday by Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis to serve as a place of remembrance.

A "wall of memory" has been created at the site, where the relatives of victims of terror can post messages.

Seagulls fish in the surf beneath an overcast sky at sunset in Faliro Bay, on Athens' southern coast, on Thursday. A storm earlier flooded streets and created bottlenecks on many main roads of the Greek capital, while other regions reported damage from hailstorms as a wet weather front swept across the country.

A woman walks along the waterfront in Flisvos on Athens' southern coast on Tuesday, where strong winds stirred up the sea and sent waves crashing onto the promenade.

After a lengthy meeting that went on until Thursday morning, the Culture Ministry's Central Archaeological Council (KAS) decided to remove the antiquities unearthed during excavation work for the Thessaloniki metro.

Two Greek F-16 jets flew over Larnaca's Kalo Chorio firing range on Thursday morning, while a training exercise of the Cypriot National Guard was in progress.

According to Cyprus News Agency, this is the final phase of a training exercise dubbed "Steel Arrow," where armoured passenger transport vehicles were put to the test.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York next week, on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly.

The two leaders are expected to discuss Cyprus, energy issues in the eastern Mediterranean and the eight Turkish servicemen who sought asylum in Greece after the botched coup attempt in Turkey in 2016.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis  reiterated his pledge on Monday not to ratify the deal reached between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over the latter's name back in June, following the release by WikiLeaks of a cable which showed Skopje would have accepted the name "North Macedonia" in 2008 provided it included the recognition of the "Macedonian" language and nat

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated on Monday his pledge not to ratify in Parliament the deal reached between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over the latter's name back in June, following a cable by Wikileaks which showed Skopje would have accepted the name "North Macedonia" in 2008.