Tripoli

Rescue efforts to aid a freighter which sank after colliding with another merchant ship in a snowstorm off the Adriatic port of Ravenna on Dec. 28 have been suspended due to bad weather conditions, officials have said.

Police in the Peloponnese were on Tuesday seeking the perpetrators behind two armed robberies – one at a post office in Aigio and the other at another post office in nearby Kalavryta.

In the first raid, two masked gunman netted around 5,000 euros, according to police who believe the same two robbers targeted the second post office where roughly the same sum was netted.

A 54-year-old businessman from Tripoli in the Peloponnese was to face a prosecutor on Wednesday on charges of murdering a 42-year-old nightclub owner with whom he had 20 years of personal rivalry.

The suspect is alleged to have used a revolver to shoot the 42-year-old four times in the latter’s office in central Tripoli on October 26.

Turkey's Trabzonspor and Beşiktaş each qualified for the round of 32 knockout stage in UEFA Europa League with a match to spare in the group stages following action on Nov. 27.

Trabzonspor defeated Ukraine's Metalist Kharkiv 3-1 to advance to the next round for the second straight year.

Libya on Nov. 14 released nine Turks who had been captured by the army and handed them over to representatives from Ankara, a government statement said.

Twin car bombs struck near the shuttered Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassy buildings in the militia-controlled Libyan capital on Nov. 13, an AFP correspondent and a UAE official said.
      
Two guards posted outside the empty Egyptian embassy compound were wounded in the first blast, Libya's LANA news agency reported.
      

Saudi Arabia and France sealed an agreement Tuesday for Riyadh to finance the delivery of $3 billion worth of French weapons to the Lebanese army, which has come under mounting jihadist attack.
      

The Corinth-Tripoli national highway in the Peloponnese will be completely closed off to traffic from 9 p.m. on Tuesday night to 6 a.m. the following day as an emergency drill is carried out at the Artemisio Tunnel.

The drill will close off the entire section of the highway from the Sterna interchange to the off-ramp for North Tripoli.

By George Georgakopoulos

PAOK has opened a five-point gap at the top of the Super League after beating Ergotelis in Crete, while Olympiakos dropped two more points away from home, this time at Asteras Tripolis.

Authorities will conduct an emergency response drill at the Artemisio Tunnel, on the section of the national highway between Corinth and Tripoli in the Peloponnese, between 9 p.m. on Tuesday and 6 a.m. on Wednesday.

During those hours, both lanes between the Sterna and Tripoli-Voreia intersections will remain closed.