ATHENS, March 2 (Reuters) - Greek authorities have ⁠detained ⁠a 36-year-old man ⁠on suspicion of spying on a U.S. naval ​base on the island of Crete, a strategic facility for the ‌United States in the eastern ‌Mediterranean, police and intelligence sources said on Monday.

Athens deployed Patriot missiles on Karpathos, an island near the Turkish coast and off the coast of Crete, which hosts a critical US military base. In addition, Greece has sent four F‑16 fighter jets and two frigates to Cyprus.

This marks the first time Poland has repatriated cultural property held under its care that was illegally taken from another country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Greece can solve their Aegean and eastern Mediterranean disputes through good faith and dialogue.

A trove of sacred Jewish artifacts from Greece, stolen by the Nazis and displaced for decades in Poland, is finally heading back home.

Greece's former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, a self-declared "erratic" Marxist, has been charged with promoting drug use after he publicly admitted to having popped an