The highest concentrations of African dust were recorded in southern Greece on Thursday, according to the National Observatory of Athens.
The highest concentrations of African dust were recorded in southern Greece on Thursday, according to the National Observatory of Athens.
The no-confidence motion tabled against the government by several opposition parties failed Thursday night, with 141 MPs voting for and 159 against.
Voting on the opposition’s proposal of no confidence in the government began at around 10.30 p.m. Thursday, at least an hour and a half later than scheduled.
The second ship transporting humanitarian aid to Gaza as part of the Amalthea project is likely to depart from Larnaca, Cyprus on Saturday, according to the Cyprus News Agency.
Two ministers have announced their resignation from the government. Minister of State Stavros Papastavrou and Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Yiannis Bratakos submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Supermarket prices increased by 2.75% in February, down from 3% in the previous month, according to a report of prices in major retail chains by the Consumer Goods Retail Research Institute (IELKA).
Greek gas supplier DEPA Commercial has filed for arbitration to seek a price revision on its gas supply contract with Gazprom, DEPA CEO Constantinos Xifaras has said.
In some markets, zero-tobacco heat sticks have been growing fast. In the Czech Republic and Romania, they already accounted for half of all sticks sold for BAT’s heated tobacco device in December, with the figure at 30% in Germany and 19% in Greece.
The Meteora Pyli Geopark has joined the UNESCO Global Geoparks network, which now encompasses 213 such parks in 48 countries around the world.
With local elections across Turkey days away, legal experts are coaching thousands of volunteer election monitors on the rules they’ll need to watch for fraud and ensure a fair vote.
Bulgaria’s populist There Is Such a People (ITN) party has declined to try to form a new national government, paving the way for President Rumen Radev to call snap elections.
The British Museum has appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will not be traveling to Washington in April due to conflicting obligations, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis announced on Thursday.
Police arrested a 27-year-old man in northeastern Attica on Wednesday for selling flares and firecrackers on social media.
A 17-year-old pupil was electrocuted on Wednesday after he came into contact with a light fixture located in the staircase of his school in Patras, western Greece.
Education experts are hailing the advent of online cramming schools in Greece as an educational El Dorado, given that some are even paid up 1,200 euros from countries of the Middle East.
A restaurant in northern Athens was targeted by robbers early Thursday morning, state-run broadcaster ERT reported.
Five people, most of them senior managers at state-run Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) which operates the rail network, gained access to the organization’s audio files from the night of the train collision at Tempe in the early hours of March 1, 2023, railway executives told Kathimerini on condition of anonymity.
Twelve playgrounds in the Municipality of Athens will close for safety reasons as they lack an updated operating permit, following a decision of the city council on Wednesday.
The three-day parliamentary debate on a no-confidence motion against the government will be concluded on Thursday night with a roll-call vote. The motion was tabled by socialist PASOK and backed by SYRIZA, New Left, communist KKE and nationalist Greek Solution. The result of the vote is a foregone conclusion given the majority enjoyed in Parliament […]
Police clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.S. military cadets.
High concentrations of Saharan dust that enveloped most of Greece on Wednesday are to remain Thursday and Friday, heaviest in the west and south of the country. Experts warn that bacteria, fungi and pollen can be embedded in African dust.