Administrative regions of Greece

A 25-year-old Bulgarian climber died while scaling Mount Olympus on Monday, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.
The man was injured and trapped at the trail near Kofto, at an altitude of 2,300 meters. He was rescued by fellow climbers who transferred him to the Zolota refuge and from there he was airlifted to AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki.

Four people were arrested in Thessaloniki on Tuesday on charges of disturbing the peace, after they scattered fliers in support of hunger-striking terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas in the northern port city's main courthouse.

Passenger traffic at the country's airports rose by 8.4 percent year-on-year over the first four months of 2019, reaching 10.71 million, against 9.88 million in the January-April 2018 period, Civil Aviation Authority figures showed on Monday.

The troupe of celebrated Irish-American Lord of the Dance choreographer Michael Flatley will be stopping in Athens with "Dangerous Games," for a single show at the Faliro Indoor Arena on Wednesday, June 19. The Lord of the Dance ensemble made its first appearance in 1996 and has since performed to more than 80 million people in 100 countries.

College de France sociologist Francois Heran will deliver a lecture exploring the migration crisis and its effect on European unity at the Athens Concert Hall on Tuesday, May 21, starting at 7 p.m. The lecture will be in French with simultaneous Greek translation and will be broadcast live on the venue's website.

MONDAY

Value-added tax (VAT) is reduced on a number of products and services.

The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) is scheduled to publish its March statistics on turnover in industry.

Sunrays hit the slopes of Mount Olympus, near the town of Litohoro, Greece, Friday. [Reuters]

Dr Lamprini Rori, an early career fellow at the British School at Athens and a lecturer in politics at the University of Exeter in the UK, will be speaking on the subject of "Political Violence in Crisis-ridden Greece: Evidence from the Radical Right and the Radical Left" at the BSA on Monday, May 20. The lecture starts at 7 p.m. and admission is free of charge.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens presents "Acropolis Redux: Caryatid/Frieze," an exhibition presenting the work of British photographer Ian Walker, who captured the enduring presence of the Erechtheion's Caryatids and the Parthenon's frieze in various guises from London housing projects to a Cleveland mansion.

A candidate in this month's local elections on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos faces possible criminal charges after an animal protection society published a video furnished by the management of a cafe in the main town of Mytilini showing him kicking a dog.