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Jamiroquai, Thievery Corporation, London Grammar, UB40, Rag'n'Bone Man and Parov Stelar are among the headliners on the bill for this year's Release Athens, one of the main events on Greece's music festival calendar. The three-day event will be taking place at Plateia Nerou, a prime location right on the seafront in Faliro, southern Athens, on May 31, June 1 and 17.

Romania's National Defence Minister Mihai Fifor met on Wednesday, in Jerusalem, chief of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Israeli Parliament Avi Dichter, according to a press statement released by the Romanian National Defence Ministry (MApN).

One of Greece’s oldest factories; formerly known as Pitsos and founded in 1865, is shutting down.

Renamed BSH Hellas; after the acquisition by German Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate, the factory based in Renti, south of Athens, is to shut down by the end of 2018.

The company’s management announced a voluntary redundancy program for its 250 employees.

Jamiroquai, Thievery Corporation, Royksopp and Archive are among the headliners on the bill for the Release Athens music festival. The perfect opener for the summer season, the three-day event will be taking place at the seaside Plateia Nerou (Water Square), in Faliro, southern Athens, on June 2, 16 and 17.

Greece may not find its old glory days anytime soon, but it will rise again from the swamp of the recent six-year long depression, offering great opportunities for long-term investors.

Democracy and human development will pave the way for the rise.

The New York Times announced the best places to visit in 2016 and included Thessaloniki, “Greece’s second-largest city which is first in food” in its list.

The U.S. newspaper compiled a list with 52 places that one should visit in 2016 with Mexico City in No1.

Armiriki is a small artistic Greek brand created by a young couple from Greece, Christina Katopodi and Konstantinos Kouvaras, born through their will to travel modern Greece around the world. Their main challenge was the threat of Greece’s bankruptcy and the imposed capital controls that have created the total opposite of an ideal environment to get started.

Greece’s natural beauty, its rivers, mountains and seas, are at the center of a campaign on indiegogo.com titled #SaveGreekNature.

The campaign is organized by WWF Greece and invites people to participate to help WWC to fight for Greece’s future, Greek nature.

Greek Parliament officially closes for summer holidays on Thursday, but ministers are obliged to complete the agreement on time. The deal with Greece’s creditors must be approved by the Greek parliament by August 17 or 18 so that Greece can pay its 3.2-bn-euro dues to the European Central bank on August 20.

This was the dispatch reported in the early afternoon, Athens time:
@yanisvaroufakis tells @BBCMarkMardell: Greek Govt will be looking overnight at imposing capital controls & closing banks on Monday. #tw2