Syriza leader Stefanos Kasselakis is touring the Greek islands for his campaign ahead of the European Parliament elections. He has chartered a 45 ft TARGA boat named ‘Parafron’.

According to the websites it’s listed on, the price of the charter is €2090 per day.

Final rehearsals ahead of the Olympic flame handover ceremony that will take place tomorrow at the Panathenaic Stadium in #Athens . The torch relay across #Greece will end its 11-day journey here on Friday.

🎥 Daphne Tolis

The Olympic Games Paris 2024

“Other cities will be watching” to see if the system works. Can the consequences of #overtourism be mitigated? Some of the negative impacts in majorly touristic cities are the increase in waste, overcrowding, pollution, housing (& food) affordability, quality of life for locals.

🔴🟡😷🏜️🇱🇾🇬🇷A severe #saharandust even started on April 23, with a huge dust cloud moving from N. #Africa ,first affecting #Libya then engulfing #Greece and its capital #Athens where the sky was in total red. In the #MODIS Aqua📸of Apr.23 dust colors dominates despite the clouds

Ο εξοπλισμός του προγράμματος #ΑΙΓΙΣ (€2,1 δις) περιλαμβάνει μεταξύ άλλων:

- 10 ελικόπτερα μεσαίου τύπου
- 7 Canadair DHC 515
- αναβάθμιση των 7 Canadair CL 415
- 25 αμφίβια αεροσκάφη πυρόσβεσης
- 300 οχήματα επιτήρησης (pick-up trucks)
- 728 πυροσβεστικά οχήματα

Civil Protection GR

«H Ελλάδα ποτέ δεν θα μπει στη διαδικασία να παραχώρησει οπλικά συστήματα χωρίς άμεση αντικατάσταση τους με αντίστοιχα και καλύτερα», 🎙️αναπληρωτής υπουργός Εσωτερικών
Thodoris Livanios σε ραδιοφωνική εκπομπή στο Κανάλι Ένα 90.4 FM

#Ουκρανία #Ukraine

In an interview on Greek Real FM radio regarding the S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, the Greek gov’t spox Pavlos Marinakis reiterated that Greece “will not make any move that might compromise the country's deterrent capability”.

#Ukraine

The month of March “averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius (57.9 degrees Fahrenheit), exceeding the previous record from 2016 by a tenth of a degree, according to ⁦Copernicus EU⁩ data.

Since June 2023 the globe has broken heat records each month” apnews.com/article/climat…

On point.

Meanwhile Greek tourism is expected to set a new record in arrivals this year.

' #Greece is heading for the highest performance of all time', for the 2024 tourist season, a TUI officials said in January.

Crete, #Rhodes , & Kos are the top island destinations for TUI’s customers.

Police on the island of #Kos , Greece, arrested the Roma parents of a 1-year-old baby girl that died on Saturday evening. A state coroner is conducting the autopsy to determine cause of death.

Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati survived being stabbed in the leg on 29 March in #Wimbledon , SW London. Three suspects wanted for the stabbing
were from eastern Europe and were hired and flown into Britain to carry out the attack, investigators believe. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

The House has passed a $95 billion package providing foreign aid for #Ukraine , Israel and the Indo-Pacific region.

One of the bills would provide nearly $61 billion to assist Ukraine and others in the region fight Russia – CNN

The statue of Lord Byron in the Garden of Heroes in Messolonghi, or Missolonghi.

In 1823 Lord Byron left #Italy for #Greece to take part in the Greek War of Independence. 200 years ago, on 19 April 1824, #Byron died of a fever in Messolonghi at the age of 36.

📸 Daphne Tolis

World Central Kitchen volunteer Damian Sobol laid to rest in #Przemysl , Poland, on Saturday.

📸: EPA

Η πληροφορία ότι βρέθηκαν «2,5 εκατομμύρια πλαστά δολάρια» στη Σύμη αναπαράχθηκε από αρκετά news site.

Δεν ισχύει όμως. Αυτό που επιβεβαιώνουν οι Αρχές είναι $200.000 πλαστά χαρτονομίσματα.

«Βρέθηκε τσάντα με 2,5 εκατομμύρια πλαστά δολάρια»

«Κουτί με 200.000 πλαστά δολάρια»