Chalkidiki

The Holy Community of Mount Athos, which represents a cluster of historic monasteries and one of Orthodoxy's holiest sites in Halkidiki, northern Greece, has called on the left-led government to hold a referendum on the contentious name deal.

A 58-year-old man who had gone missing since October 30 in a region of the Sithonia peninsula in Halkidiki, northern Greece, was found dead on Thursday.

According to police, the man was fatally injured when the tractor he was operating overturned at a rural road near the village of Metagitsi.

The family of the farmer had alerted authorities on his disappearance on Tuesday. 

Three beachgoers died at sea on Tuesday and Monday in Attica, Thessaloniki and Halkidiki, authorities said.

More specifically, the body of a 76-year-old woman was recovered early on Tuesday morning in the coastal area of Rafina in eastern Attica.

On Monday afternoon, the body of a man was found in the sea off a beach in Peraia in Thessaloniki.

A 47-year-old Russian national who went missing on Thursday in the region of Aghios Mamas, near Nea Moudania in Halkidiki, northern Greece, was found dead on Friday, according to authorities.

His friends reported his disappearance after he did not return from the beach on Thursday.

A Hellenic Post employee in Halkidiki, northern Greece has been charged with forgery and embezzling 300,000 euros from two branches in the 2012-14 period.

The suspect embezzled funds, pensions and remittances while he was working at the post office branches in Kallikrateia and Kassandreia.

He was expected to appear before an investigative magistrate on July 4.

The Historical and Folklore Museum of Nikiti in Halkidiki, northern Greece, is currently hosting an exhibition of 22 lithographs by Gaspare Fossati, depicting the former Greek Orthodox Christian basilica of Hagia Sofia in the city then widely known as Constantinople.

Lightning sparked three wildfires in remote parts of the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the fire service.

Ground and air crews were battling blazes in the uplands of Kavourotrypes and Vourvourou on the Sithonia leg of the peninsula on Tuesday morning, after putting out another fire in Afytos on the Cassandra leg earlier.

The fourth Parthenon Film Festival will host three open-air cinema nights in the central square of the quaint village of Parthenonas, about 6 kilometers outside Neos Marmaras on Halkidiki's Sithonia peninsula. This year, the festival has picked movies that explore the notion of dreams, as a pleasurable experience, an enigmatic riddle and a nightmare.

Greece aims to resolve a long-standing standoff with Canada's Eldorado Gold Corporation over its development plans in the coming weeks, the Energy Ministry said on Tuesday.

Eldorado Gold will be planning its next moves after its vindication on Wednesday by an arbitration panel in its dispute with the Greek state over the mining unit at Madem Lakkos in the Halkidiki region of northern Greece.