Ισραηλινά πλήγματα στη λωρίδα της Γάζας στοίχισαν σήμερα τη ζωή σε επτά ανθρώπους, σύμφωνα με διασώστες και ιατρικές πηγές στο παλαιστινιακό έδαφος. Παρά την εκεχειρία που συνήφθη τον Οκτώβριο 2025, βίαια επεισόδια σημειώνονται καθημερινά στη Γάζα. Μέσα στην πόλη της Γάζας, πλήγμα μη επανδρωμένου αεροσκάφους προκάλεσε το θάνατο έξι ανθρώπων και τον τραυματισμό άλλων 15 μέσα στον καταυλισμό εκτοπισμένων του Τζαουάζατ, ανακοίνωσε η υπηρεσία πολιτικής άμυνας, οργανισμός πρώτων βοηθειών που λειτουργεί υπό την αιγίδα του ισλαμιστικού κινήματος Χαμάς. Το νοσκομείο αλ-Σίφα της πόλης της Γάζας ανακοίνωσε ότι παρέλαβε έξι πτώματα. At least six Palestinians were killed and 10 others, including children, were injured when an Israeli drone strike hit a tent sheltering displaced civilians in Gaza City pic.twitter.com/Ep9vLj2Ouu— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) June 6, 2026 «Στοχοθετήσαμε ‘τρομοκράτες’ στον τομέα αυτό», ανακοίνωσε ο ισραηλινός στρατός χωρίς να κάνει γνωστές περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες. Νοτιότερα, ένας 25χρονος άνδρας, ο Μουχάναντ Οτμάν Φαρουάνα, σκοτώθηκε το πρωί «από πλήγμα με στόχο μια σκηνή εκτοπισμένων», σύμφωνα με την υπηρεσία πολιτικής άμυνας. Το νοσοκομείο Νάσερ της Χαν Γιούνις ανακοίνωσε ότι το πτώμα του μεταφέρθηκε σ’ αυτό, καθώς και τραυματίες. Στρατιωτικός εκπρόσωπος δήλωσε ότι ο ισραηλινός στρατός στοχοθέτησε «έναν τρομοκράτη», χωρίς περισσότερες διευκρινίσεις. Το πλήγμα είχε στόχο τη σκηνή που βρισκόταν πάνω στη σκεπή του σπιτιού του, ενώ αργότερα σήμερα επρόκειτο να παντρευτεί, είπε ο εξάδελφός του, ο Μοχάμεντ Φαρουάνα. «Όλη η οικογένεια ετοιμαζόταν να γιορτάσει το γάμο του. Σήμερα, αντί για το γάμο του, κάνουμε την κηδεία του», πρόσθεσε. www.ertnews.gr

Στον Ιερό Ναό Ευαγγελισμού της Θεοτόκου στο κοιμητήριο Παπάγου, θα τελεστεί Τη Δευτέρα, 8 Ιουνίου, στις 12:00, η εξόδιος ακολουθία του πρώην υπουργού και κορυφαίου στελέχους της Νέας Δημοκρατίας, Γιώργου Σουφλιά. Επιθυμία της οικογένειας του εκλιπόντος είναι, αντί στεφάνων, να κατατεθούν δωρεές στη μνήμη του στον οργανισμό «Το Χαμόγελο του Παιδιού». Ο Γιώργος Σουφλιάς υπήρξε μία από τις πιο πολυσχιδείς και επιδραστικές προσωπικότητες της μεταπολιτευτικής πολιτικής σκηνής της χώρας, συνδέοντας το όνομά του με κρίσιμα χαρτοφυλάκια, μεγάλα έργα υποδομής, αλλά και σημαντικές εσωκομματικές και εθνικές μεταρρυθμίσεις. Γεννημένος στην Αγιά Λάρισας το 1941, σπούδασε Πολιτικός Μηχανικός στο Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο. Η πολιτική του σταδιοδρομία ξεκίνησε το 1974, όταν εξελέγη για πρώτη φορά βουλευτής Λάρισας με τη Νέα Δημοκρατία, έναν νομό τον οποίο υπηρέτησε πιστά για πολλές δεκαετίες. Κατά τη διάρκεια της μακράς κυβερνητικής του θητείας, ανέλαβε κρίσιμα υπουργικά καθήκοντα: Υπουργείο Εθνικής Οικονομίας & Οικονομικών: Στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1990, διαχειρίστηκε την οικονομική πολιτική σε μια μεταβατική περίοδο για τη χώρα. Συνέδεσε το όνομά του με μεταρρυθμιστικές προσπάθειες και τον διάλογο για την παιδεία. Στις κυβερνήσεις του Κώστα Καραμανλή, ο Γιώργος Σουφλιάς ταυτίστηκε με την ολοκλήρωση και τον σχεδιασμό εμβληματικών έργων υποδομής σε όλη την επικράτεια (όπως η ολοκλήρωση μεγάλων οδικών αξόνων, η επέκταση του Μετρό της Αθήνας και μεγάλα περιβαλλοντικά έργα). Γνωστός στον πολιτικό κόσμο και στους δημοσιογράφους με το προσωνύμιο «ο σοφός της παράταξης», ο Γιώργος Σουφλιάς ξεχώριζε για την ευθύτητα του λόγου του, την τεχνοκρατική του επάρκεια και την ικανότητά του να συνθέτει απόψεις, κερδίζοντας τον σεβασμό τόσο των συμπολιτευόμενων όσο και των πολιτικών του αντιπάλων. Η απώλειά του σηματοδοτεί το κλείσιμο ενός μεγάλου κεφαλαίου για την κεντροδεξιά παράταξη και την ελληνική πολιτική ζωή γενικότερα. Πηγή: AΠE-MΠΕ Σχετική είδηση: Πέθανε σε ηλικία 85 ετών ο πρώην υπουργός Γιώργος Σουφλιάς www.ertnews.gr

Greece is planning on taxing profits from cryptocurrencies. Credit: Jorge Franganillo / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0 The Greek government is reportedly finalizing legislation to impose a 15% tax on capital gains derived from cryptocurrencies, aiming to formally integrate digital assets into the national tax code. According to government officials who spoke to Reuters on Friday, the Ministry of National Economy and Finance in Greece is drafting the bill, which authorities expect to submit to Parliament for approval in the coming months. Under the proposed financial framework, the initial 500 euros of cryptocurrency profits will remain exempt from the new tax to shield small-scale retail investors. Any capital gains exceeding this threshold will face a flat 15% rate, aligning the taxation of digital assets with traditional securities sales in Greece. It is believed that people engaged in personal cryptocurrency mining will not face taxation on their yields. However, if the mining operation functions as a registered corporate entity, standard business tax rules will apply. The current situation regarding cryptocurrency taxation in Greece At present, Greece operates without a comprehensive legal framework specifically targeting cryptocurrency profits and people making a living out of them. This regulatory gap reflects a broader inconsistency across the European Union, where member states currently lack a unified fiscal system for the rapidly expanding sector. Across the continent, tax rates on digital capital gains vary significantly, ranging from an 8% low in neighboring Cyprus to 30% in France. The upcoming Greek legislation seeks to close domestic loopholes and bring Athens in line with European peers that have already established clear rules for digital investors. The legislative move coincides with a wider European push to curb tax evasion and financial opacity within the digital space. The European Union recently introduced the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation and the DAC8 Directive, which mandate strict reporting standards and demand that crypto-asset service providers share user transaction data with national tax authorities. Greece’s updated tax code will operate in tandem with these measures on a European level. A pointless measure? Despite the planned implementation, government sources acknowledged severe difficulties in measuring the actual size of the domestic cryptocurrency market. The vast majority of Greek investors execute their trades through international, offshore platforms rather than locally registered exchanges. This decentralized structure makes it nearly impossible for financial authorities to accurately track the total volume of digital assets held by people. Consequently, the Ministry of Finance has not yet published any specific projections regarding the exact state revenues the 15% tax might generate. Until the proposed legislation officially becomes law, cryptocurrency profits remain largely undeclared in Greece, leaving a substantial pool of potential state revenue untapped.

Early Greek alphabet painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Today, there are missing letters in the Greek alphabet. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 The Greek alphabet has changed in many ways over the course of its existence. This is hardly surprising, given that the Greeks have been using it for nearly three millennia. One way in which it has changed is that some letters that used to exist in the Greek alphabet are now missing. Which letters were these, and what do we know about them? The first letters of the Greek alphabet To start, let us establish how the Greek alphabet acquired its letters in the first place. According to ancient Greek historians, the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet after the arrival of a Phoenician prince named Cadmus. Archaeology confirms that this occurred at some point in the ninth century BCE. The Phoenician alphabet was composed of only consonants. When the Greeks adopted it, they modified it to include vowels as well. This was a major step forward in the development of writing. According to Plutarch, a Greek historian of the first century CE, there were originally sixteen Greek letters. However, Hyginus, an earlier writer, reports that there were originally eighteen. In reality, it appears that neither version is correct. Physical evidence in the form of ancient inscriptions reveals that the earliest Greek inscriptions made use of all twenty-two letters in the Phoenician alphabet. However, four of these were for sounds which did not exist in Greek, so they were modified into vowels. Perhaps this is where Hyginus’ idea of eighteen original letters comes from, being a distorted memory of the eighteen original consonants. In any case, the total number of letters in the Greek alphabet increased over time. Why are there some missing letters? Some of the letters used in ancient Greek inscriptions are simply not in the modern Greek alphabet. Why is this? Simply put, the reason is that the Greek language itself has evolved over time, and the alphabet exists to comply to the needs of the language rather than vice versa. Additionally, different dialects of the Greek language existed within the Greek world at the same time. Therefore, the needs of each dialect would not necessarily be covered by the same letters. In the late fifth century BCE, the alphabet used by the Ionian Greeks became the official, standardized alphabet of Athens. Over the following century, it then replaced the local alphabets of other Greek regions. By that time, the dialect of the Ionian Greeks was such that their alphabet did not make use of all the letters that had once been in use. Rather, their alphabet used just twenty-four letters. Hence, what were the letters that the Greek alphabet used to have but no longer does? Digamma One of the most famous lost letters of the Greek alphabet is Digamma. This had the following form: Ϝ It is superficially very similar to the modern F, but the sound was completely different. It was essentially the modern w sound. In fact, the original name for this letter was ‘wau’, taken directly from the Phoenician name for this letter. San Another lost letter is San. This had the following form: Ϻ Like Digamma, this looks almost identical to a more familiar letter. In this case, it looks just like the modern letter M. However, like with Digamma, the sound indicated by this ancient letter was completely different. Unlike the modern M, the ancient San, or Ϻ, was used to indicate an s sound. This fell out of use in favor of the alternative letter Sigma, written as Σ. Koppa Another letter that is no longer in use is Koppa, which had the following written form: Ϙ This is similar to the modern Q in the English alphabet, and that is no coincidence. Koppa was still part of the Greek alphabet when the Latins adopted it, which led to this letter eventually becoming the Q in English. The English alphabet originated from the Romans. The sound Koppa indicated was a k sound. It eventually fell out of favor in Greek, being replaced by the alternative letter Kappa, written as Κ. Sampi This next letter is called Sampi. It was written as: Ͳ This is very similar to the modern T, but it is unrelated. That modern letter comes from the ancient Greek Tau which, of course, had a t sound. In contrast, the ancient Greek Sampi had some kind of s or sh sound, although the exact vocalization is unknown. In any case, it fell out of favor when this sound was no longer used.

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