Greek official resigns amid anti-Semitism allegations

Deputy minister asked to resign mere hours after being sworn in due to allegations of anti-Semitic and racist tweets. Greece's newly elected government hit its first setback hours after it was sworn in on Wednesday, in a row over whether a junior minister had posted offensive tweets online. In what might be one of the shortest cabinet appointments in recent years, deputy infrastructure and transport minister Dimitris Kammenos was asked to resign, amid a furore over alleged postings on Twitter. "Until the truth is clarified on anti-semitic and racist posts, the deputy minister will facilitate the issue with his resignation," Panos Kammenos, the leader of the Independent Greeks party, said in a posting on his official Twitter account. The minister was named in a new cabinet sworn in earlier Wednesday under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Dimitris Kammenos, who is unrelated to his party leader, was not immediately available for comment.