Units of time

According to preliminary adjusted data, retail trade in November contracted by 6.4% compared to a year earlier and increased by 1.2% compared to October, according to the National Statistical Institute.

On an annual basis, trade in food, beverages and tobacco products decreased the most - by 14.4%, and trade in automotive fuels and lubricants - by 15.8%.

CNN reports that President Trump took to his Twitter account one hour after the escalation of the protests of his supporters and the incursion into the Congress.
"Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!", the incumbent US President said.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged the country's influential Orthodox Church on Tuesday to respect coronavirus restrictions during Epiphany celebrations on Jan. 6 after Synod leaders said they would defy the lockdown.

Greek private sector bank deposits rose in November for the tenth month in a row, central bank data showed on Tuesday.

Business and household deposits increased to 158.7 billion euros ($194.93 billion) from 155.7 billion in October, Bank of Greece data showed.

It is uploaded on the Youtube channel Voices of the Past

A 14-year-old boy who is accused, along with his 12-year-old sister, of robbing and murdering an 87-year-old man last week, was located on Monday in the region of Toumba in Thessaloniki after he went missing from the orphanage he was transferred to by police in the wake of the crime.

Turkey's Justice Ministry has requested a red notice from the Interpol for a woman who is believed to have taken part in the abduction of Habib Chaab, an Iranian dissident.

Chaab was kidnapped in Istanbul in October and smuggled to Iran.

When the allied Greek cities found themselves facing the invading Persian Army in 480 BC, it was an existential battle between East and West. Greece, representing all the values of the West, as we know it today, used its "wooden walls" - its ships - to face the Eastern invaders.

There were 101 fatalities

The death of a 27-year-old Afghan asylum seeker at the Ritsona migrant camp on Evia has sparked fresh protestations over the absence of a Muslim cemetery in Greece except for Thrace, leading to bodies being left in mortuaries for lack of a viable alternative.