Estia

The Estia project has already been activated, with the Cypriot authorities responding to requests for assistance

Police have launched an investigation after a homemade device made of gas canisters exploded in the neighborhood of Pangrati in central Athens at 3.20 a.m. on Wednesday.

The bomb was left at the entrance of a building on Eratosthenous Street that houses the Dimokratia, Espresso and Estia newspapers.

The Hellenic Navy on Thursday denied a press report claiming that anti-personnel landmines were stolen along with other military equipment from its base on the island of Leros on Monday, saying it does not have any such weapons in stock.

Former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias has prepared a 10-page legal suit taking issue with a spectrum of alleged detractors, according to the conservative newspaper Estia which reports that Kotzias accuses unnamed government sources of undermining him.

New-York-based National Herald, Greece's second-oldest Greek-language newspaper in the world, after Athens-based Estia, is celebrating its centenary this year.

The newspaper has been a lifeline for generations of Greeks living in America with its first issue on April 2, 1915, kicking off with an interview with historic Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos.

The head of the Estia publishing house, Mania Karaitidi, has died at the age of 86 after succumbing to cancer.

Karaitidi had been in charge of Estia since 1972, when she took over the publishing house Constantinos Sarantopoulos. In 2000, she received the Order of Merit from the French Republic.

Karaitidi is due to be buried on Wednesday at the First Cemetery in Athens.