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Three Italian fighters "Eurofighter typhoon" will guard the Bulgarian airspace along with the Bulgarian MiG-29 over the next three months. All costs are at the expense of the Italian State.

A change of guard is in the cards for some of the key representatives of Greece's international creditors with new bailout monitors expected to assume their posts in the fall.

A key switch is expected in September when the European Commission representative, the Irishman Declan Costello is likely to leave his post, opening the way for a replacement from Portugal.

Nisyros is not your typical Greek island. This small land mass in the Aegean is also an active volcano. It is the youngest along a rift in the Southern Aegean and has experienced at least three major eruptions in the past 45,000 years. One of these, around 16,000 years ago, was particularly destructive, blanketing a wide area with volcanic ash.

Serbia and Greece signed on Thursday in Thessaloniki six interstate agreements.

The signing ceremony was attended by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who headed the country's high state delegation, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

A 45-year-old man was in the intensive care unit of the Irakleio University Hospital on Crete on Friday after being hit in the chest by a stray bullet during an outdoor event in a village in the area of Acharnon-Asterousion.

Local police were seeking to determine the exact circumstances of the man's injury.

A one of a kind exhibition will be held from July 27, to August 18 at the stunning Firkas fortress, in the heart of the old harbour of Chania, on Crete.

The fire broke out in the Kresna Defile on Thursday afternoon and covered 800 decares of forest, the local fire brigade said.

Unidentified arsonists placed a homemade explosive device outside a bank ATM in Halkidiki, northern Greece, in the early hours of Friday, damaging the machine and fleeing with some 84,000 euros in cash that it had contained.

A Serb man was ordered jailed pending trial and two others were released on bail late on Thursday after appearing before an investigating judge on the Greek island of Zakynthos in the beating death of an American tourist.

Lewis Hamilton defended his decision to snub a major Formula One promotional event in London and said the British Grand Prix and his title challenge came first.

The Briton, who will be chasing a fourth successive home win at Silverstone on Sunday, was the only driver to miss the F1 Live event on Wednesday.