At least 78 people have died in a migrant shipwreck off the Peloponnese, while 104 people have been rescued, Greek media reported on Wednesday

Greece has been under pressure by the United States to not provide assistance to the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya (formerly Grace 1), which has recently been released from UK custody despite Washington's requests to the contrary and is now supposedly headed toward a Greek port, and pledged to not help the vessel complete its shipment of oil to Syria, Greek First Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on Wednesday

Rallies and demonstrations were held throughout Greece on Tuesday, with people demanding the shutdown of the US and NATO military bases.

NATO aviation training center will be set up in city of Kalamata, located in the Peloponnese region of Greece, Panos Kammenos, the Greek defense minister, said at a meeting of the alliance's defense ministers on Thursday.

A Hellenic Air Force T-2 two-seater trainer aircraft has crashed during a training flight in the vicinity of the town of Sparta, located on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece, killing one pilot, local media reported on Tuesday, citing the Hellenic Air Force's General Staff.