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A Greek court jailed four defendants, including two Israelis, for breaching confidentiality and illegally accessing data in the Predator spyware scandal, totaling 126 years (eight years to be served). The verdict highlights Greece’s ongoing political crisis over the use of commercial spyware against politicians and journalists, with opposition leaders vowing continued accountability efforts.
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has been indicted and will stand trial for allegedly promoting drug use after admitting on a podcast that he experimented with marijuana and ecstasy about 36 years ago at a festival in Australia; he is set to appear in court on December 16, with his MeRA25 party alleging political manipulation by the government.
Dana Eden, an Israeli producer behind Apple TV+'s Tehran, died unexpectedly in Athens during the Season 4 shoot; Greek authorities have opened an autopsy to determine the cause of death, while Apple TV and Kan mourn her loss and have denied foul play amid online rumors.
Dana Eden, a prominent Israeli TV producer and co-founder of Shula and Donna Productions, died unexpectedly at age 52 during the Season 4 shoot of Tehran in Greece. Greek police are investigating the circumstances, and the production company has denied rumors of criminal or politically motivated motives as colleagues and officials express their mourning.
Dana Eden, a producer and co-creator of Tehran, was found dead in an Athens hotel room during the fourth-season shoot; authorities are investigating, with her production company and the Israeli embassy saying there are no nationalist or criminal links suspected.
Greece plans to join the Gaza Stabilization Force with a 100–150‑strong battalion, including armored vehicles, medics and engineers, marking a more security-focused role than its ISAF mission; deployment timing is undecided and two Greek officers have already linked with the US-led coordination effort.
A genetic study of the Deep Maniots, a small, isolated community in southern Greece, finds an unusually strong paternal lineage dating back to a Caucasus origin about 28,000 years ago and little evidence of Migration Period Germanic/Slavic input. Maternal lineages are more diverse, with several Bronze/Iron Age connections; both paternal and maternal lineages show founder effects around AD 380–670 and 540–866, respectively, highlighting long-term isolation and a patriarchal clan structure that preserved ancient Greek ancestry in the Deep Mani region.
A new DNA study finds Maniots, inhabitants of the Mani region in southern Greece, descend from Bronze Age Greeks, suggesting strong genetic continuity with ancient Aegean populations.
A speedboat carrying 15 Afghan and Moroccan migrants collided with a Greek coastguard vessel near Chios, killing 15 and injuring 24; Greece blames smugglers, but past cases show official accounts can be questioned, with calls for independent evidence such as video or phone records amid ongoing probes and human-rights concerns.
Greece is pushing to move from a defense customer to a co- producer of Israeli systems, approving the purchase of 36 PULS rocket artillery units and forming committees to negotiate three more Israeli missiles for its Shield of Achilles. Officials say talks include government-to-government deals to bypass bids and expand a broader “360” security approach with Israel (and Cyprus) that could include drones and joint development, even as critics warn arming during Gaza’s crisis raises humanitarian concerns.
At least 14 migrants died and 24 were rescued after a speedboat carrying them collided with a Hellenic Coast Guard vessel off Chios in the Chios Strait following a dangerous pursuit; a large search-and-rescue operation involving four coastguard vessels, a civilian boat, and a helicopter was under way, with injuries including several children and a pregnant woman. The exact circumstances are still being investigated.
Archaeologists in Greece’s Megalopolis basin found a 430,000-year-old wooden tool, likely used for digging, plus a second, more enigmatic implement that may have helped shape stone. Preserved by ancient sediment and a wet lakebed environment, these are the oldest wooden tools identified and suggest early wood use far earlier than previously confirmed, though no human remains were found and dating is inferred from the site’s age.
Archaeologists in Greece uncovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools at the Marathousa site on the Peloponnese—the oldest known of their kind and about 130,000 years before Homo sapiens. One tool is a long digging-stick-like piece about 81 cm (31.9 inches) and fragmented; the other is a small 5.7 cm (2.2 inches) debarked piece of wood. The discovery, preserved by wet soils near a lakeshore, suggests early hominins used diverse materials (including wood) for different tasks, likely made by species such as Homo heidelbergensis or early Neanderthals, broadening our understanding of ancient technology and behavior.
Seven PAOK fans were killed in a road crash in Romania while traveling to a match in France, marking a tragic loss for Greek football supporters.
Archaeologists in the Megalopolis Basin, Greece, unearthed 430,000-year-old wooden tools—an alder digging stick and a tiny willow/poplar tool possibly for shaping stone—remarkably preserved in wet sediment, providing the oldest evidence that early humans used wood in tool-making and expanding our view of ancient technology.