A record number of animals, most of them wild, were found dead in the northeastern border region of Evros, a local environmental group said on Tuesday, adding that their death was the result of poisoned baits.
The European Commission decided on Wednesday to refer Greece to the EU’s Court of Justice for not applying correctly the rules under the Late Payment Directive.
A former lawmaker with far-right Spartiates party punched another MP in the face on Wednesday during a tense argument in Parliament over a defamation lawsuit.
Acknowledgement and vigilance is required for the victims of the Armenian Genocide, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said in a statement on Wednesday, marking the 109th anniversary since the start of a systematic extermination of one and a half million Armenians during the last period of the Ottoman Empire.
A major plume of Saharan dust that has affected much of Greece is expected to subside during the course of Wednesday, the National Observatory of Athens’ DUST/METEO service said.
A 15-year-old boy from the town of Pella in northern Greece was arrested for putting out a lit cigarette on the cheek of a fellow classmate, state-run wire service AMNA reported on Wednesday.
European Union auditors said on Wednesday that they are unable to establish whether some of the billions of euros the bloc has given to Turkey to help it cope with Syrian refugees is actually having any impact.
Police has compiled a case file against a 13-year-old girl in western Greece after she allegedly beat up another teen girl in the school yard last Monday.
The case file put together by the police Sub-Division for the Prevention of Sports Violence against the participants in the incidents that led to the death of 31-year-old policeman Giorgos Lyngeridis outside a volleyball stadium in Athens last December has shed light on the way the Olympiakos club hooligans orchestrated the attack, the internal hierarchy of Gate 7 organized fans and their relationship with the management of the team.
A shadow has been cast over the otherwise good Greek-American relationship by the US State Department’s report on the state of human rights in Greece in 2023, where, among other things, there is reference to allegations of mistreatment of migrants and asylum seekers, members of the LGBTQI+ community, and to the previous year’s complaints about the wiretapping case.
An armed man held up a medical diagnostic center in Kallithea in Athens on Tuesday, located on Eleftheriou Venizelou Street.
Leftist party SYRIZA seems to be winning the battle for second place from socialist PASOK while ruling conservatives New Democracy maintain a steady lead, according to an opinion poll for Action 24 TV ahead of European elections in June.
Three foreign nationals were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the fire that raged in an area of woodland on the Cycladic island of Paros on Monday.
Athens and southern parts of the country were again enveloped in Saharan dust on Tuesday, with hues of yellow and orange creating an otherworldly atmosphere.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has wrapped up her visit to Uruguay with the laying of a wreath at the statue of the country’s national hero, José Artigas.
“Exercise, exercise, exercise”, read an emergency text message which alerted people on the island of Crete of a mock earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude off the city of Iraklio.
Attacks against migrants, refugees and LGBT people in Greece surged to their highest level in nearly a decade last year, a report by the Athens-based Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) has found.
The cost of the damage caused by last year’s storms Daniel and Elias will exceed €3 billion, almost half of which is needed to repair road and rail infrastructure and to fix schools, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
Passenger traffic at the country’s 39 airports increased by 14.4% in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the corresponding period in 2023.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said he does not believe the Palestinian militant group Hamas will leave Qatar, where it is based, adding he had seen no such signs that Doha wished the group to leave, either.
A prosecutor has charged 67 Olympiakos club hooligans, arrested on Monday for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis, with 28 charges, including 12 felonies.
An Italian researcher believes he has identified the location of Plato’s burial place in Athens by analyzing papyri from Herculaneum.
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