Greece

Greece's third largest lender Eurobank, which is issuing new shares to help plug a capital shortfall, said on Friday that the cash call will take place from April 25 to 29.

Greece officially offered on Thursday to assist Turkey in its efforts to locate and salvage a Turkish Air Force fighter jet which crashed in the Aegean almost 20 years ago.

Eurobank chief executive Christos Megalou expressed certainty on Thursday that the lender’s share capital increase will be successfully completed very soon.

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By Stathis Kousounis

The documentary was filmed in a number of locations, including Oakland, California, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Chicago, Illinois. The filmmakers also visited a number of sites in Colorado, where the Ludlow Massacre took place. These included Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs.

By Nick Malkoutzis

Author Nikos Dimou announced on Friday he was resigning as a member of To Potami, the centrist party led by journalist Stavros Theodorakis, after causing controversy with his public questioning of the belief that the Holy Fire brought from Jerusalem to Greece on Easter Saturday is the result of a miracle.

Stores across the country will be operating according to a slightly different schedule on Friday and Saturday in view of Greek Orthodox Easter, which is this Sunday.

A homemade explosive device planted under a car belonging to the wife of Deputy Parliament Speaker Giorgos Kalantzis detonated early on Thursday outside the couple’s home in Kavala, northern Greece, causing serious damage to the vehicle but no injuries.

The Justice Ministry’s general secretary for crime-fighting policies, Marinos Skandamis, on Thursday asked a prosecutor to launch an investigation into the death of an Albanian inmate at Aghios Stefanos Prison near Patra, western Greece, during a brawl.