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NATO allies have agreed to provide Kyiv with additional air defense systems, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said after a special meeting of allied defense ministers with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Political parties, news media, trade unions and nongovernmental organizations lie together in a heap at the bottom of the ladder of Greeks’ trust in institutions, each with 1.9 points out of 5.

A senior fire service officer has been handed a two-year suspended sentence for submitting false information to the prosecuting authorities during their investigation of the 2018 Mati fire, in which 104 people lost their lives.

The recent resignation of the scientific director of the Biomedical Research Foundation (BRFAA) of the Academy of Athens has cast a shadow over Greece’s stated objective to plug the brain drain that has scarred the country and pave the way for a much-needed brain gain.

A second allegation of child sexual abuse has been made against a 50-year-old museum guard on the Dodecanese island of Nisyros, who was suspended from duty on Thursday after the first complaint came to light.

Defence Minister Nikos Dendias has attended the opening of a two-day festival at Trinity College Cambridge in England to mark with the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death on 19 April 1824, in Messolongi, Greece.

The new Panathinaikos stadium in Votanikos and the redevelopment project at the team’s old stadium on Alexandras Avenue will be ready by 2026, Athens Mayor Haris Doukas has said.

Residents in the regions of Halkidiki, Thessaly, Magnesia, Lesvos, the Sporades and northern Evia have been warned to limit their movements from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon due to expected thunderstorms and gale-force winds.

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan views his upcoming meeting on May 13 with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis “an important stage” in exploring how the relationship between Greece and Turkey can be improved.

The policy of rapprochement with Turkey had helped decrease illegal migration flows, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said from Lesvos.

Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s defense and diplomatic editor, joins Thanos Davelis to explore Defense Minister Nikos Dendias’ plan for a defense system for Greece similar to Israel’s Iron Dome, discuss the view from Athens following Iran’s attack on Israel, and look at the key takeaways from the EU summit on Cyprus.

The procedures for issuing tax information will be faster as the interoperability between the state agencies is adopted.

Western states have sought to send Iran messages via Turkey in recent days to reiterate appeals for de-escalation, a Western diplomat said on Friday.

Turkey on Friday called on all sides to refrain from steps that could lead to a wider conflict in the Middle East, after Israel reportedly attacked Iran in a tit-for-tat retaliation for Iran’s strike.

Turkey hopes to conduct a deep-sea oil drilling operation off the Somali coast in 2025, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Thursday in an interview on broadcaster NTV.