A valuable 1,000-year-old Christian manuscript that was taken by Bulgarian forces from a monastery in northern Greece more than a century ago has been returned, along with hundreds of other documents and artefacts, by a U.S. museum.
In a ceremony at the Eikosiphoinissa Monastery on Thursday, the 11th-century gospel was solemnly delivered in front of guests including Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and representatives from the Museum of the Bible in Washington.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday hailed a "new era" as a long-awaited pipeline began pumping gas, amid the EU's efforts to wean itself off Russian energy.
The Gas Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), a 182-kilometre (113-mile) trans-boundary pipeline was designed to help Bulgaria, which has for years been heavily dependent on Russian gas, obtain energy from other sources.
It officially opened in July, but did not start operations until Saturday.
A spy crisis compared to Watergate, calls for more resignations amid reports of "black activities," and an eavesdropping controversy that prompts the resignations of Greece's intelligence chief and the head of his personal office within minutes.
After learning that the head of the third-largest party in the country, the political rival of the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, had his phone tapped by the intelligence agency EYP, which directly reports to his office, he is currently facing his most difficult time in office.