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Five-time Grammy award-winning Beninese-French singer, songwriter and activist Angelique Kidjo comes to Athens on November 20 as part of her latest tour celebrating her 40-year career.

The Lighthouse venue at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens will host the Green Deal Greece conference on November 2.

Organized by the Technical Chamber of Greece and the economix.gr website, the event is titled "The Resilience of Infrastructures and Regions, Today and Tomorrow: Challenges, threats and opportunities toward the green reform."

AMKA met in Groningen in the Netherlands, where they were studying at a jazz conservatory, and got together as a band in 2018. Comprising three Greeks and a British singer, they recorded their first tracks at Dudu Loft in Athens, drawing influences from punk, krautrock, noise, disco, jazz and pop sounds.

Mike Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration as director of the CIA and as secretary of state, will be the keynote speaker at the American Mediterranean Investment Forum, which will be held next month in Athens.

A traffic accident led to a car overturning near the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in southern Athens on Monday afternoon. The accident, that occurred at approximately 3 p.m., has led to disruptions in traffic.

Twenty-seven shipping companies of Greek interests listed in the US capital markets were honored for their exceptional quality, transparency, and attractiveness to global financial and service providers during the inaugural Annual Hellenic-American Shipping Gala. 

It's midday on Friday, July 7, and the phone rings on the desk of Vasileios Bikas, the coordinator for foreign detachments at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Hellenic Fire Corps Training Center. The call is about a blaze in brushland in the East Attica town of Keratea that may not be threatening houses but has the fire service on alert.

Children play in a water fountain during a heat wave, at Stavros Niarchos foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Thursday. Temperatures were starting to creep up in Greece, where a heatwave was forecast to reach up to 44 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country over the weekend. [AP]

The Primary Healthcare - Mobile Medical Units program for remote islands and areas throughout Greece has undoubtedly been a success story. The program is run by the University of Athens in collaboration with Health Units SA and implemented by the NGO Renaissance and Progress and with the exclusive donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Up close, Glenn Close exudes on the one hand the stately air of a big screen star and on the other that unique simplicity that characterizes most of her American colleagues. The award-winning actress was in Athens recently to take part in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's SNF Nostos conference, which this year was dedicated to mental health.