Ioannou

Cyprus' Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou presented on Wednesday solutions for resolving issues faced by "stranded buyers" to the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs, addressing about half of the nearly 9,500 pending cases.

Josh Hickey recounts a funny scene that played out in the first year of the Hydra Book Club, a pop-up bookstore he established in 2021 on the first floor of the Hydra Historical Archive and Museum, featuring Greek and foreign books, new and used, on the island.

If there is one thing Anastasis Ioannou remembers from his childhood, it's his father stuck among his easels of oils and watercolors, wielding a paintbrush or pencil. And there, in the creative chaos of Stavros Ioannis (1945-2009), a renowned expressionist and student of Yannis Moralis, young Anastasis would sit at his own small easel, mimicking his father.

Running at Athens' Elize (12 Nymfaiou, Ilissia) movie theater through May 14 and at Thessaloniki's Vakoura (8 Ioannou Michail) from May 11 to 21, the Horrorant Film Festival delights in frights.

Cypriot authorities will spend more than 100 million euros ($106 million) to repair dozens of dilapidated high-rise housing units built decades ago for refugees from the island's 1974 Turkish invasion, officials said Thursday.

A steady decrease in new coronavirus infections three weeks into Cyprus' nationwide lockdown is allowing for the start of the gradual, targeted lifting of closures and restrictions, the country's health minister said Wednesday.

Cyprus' lawmakers on Thursday voted down the coming year's state budget for the first time since the country's founding in 1960, amid a squabble over a probe into a defunct "golden passport" program.

The government of Cyprus on Wednesday confirmed the further relaxation of the coronavirus lockdown but no decision has been made about bringing forward the fourth phase of the country's gradual rollback of restrictions, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said.

Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis congratulated the country's counterterrorism unit for the arrests made during a raid in an Athens suburb on Wednesday.

"I would like to congratulate the leadership and staff of the counterterrorism unit for yet another great success. Every victory in the fight against terrorism is also a victory for our democracy," he said in a tweet.

One of Greece's most important cartoonists, Yiannis Ioannou, has died at the age of 75 following a battle with cancer.

Ioannou, who died on Thursday, made a lasting mark in his field following the restoration of democracy after the fall of the junta, influenced chiefly by French political satirists. In turn, he influenced many of his younger Greek colleagues.