The President of the National Aviation Investigation Agency And Railway Accidents And Transportation Safety (HARSIA) has resigned.
The President of the National Aviation Investigation Agency And Railway Accidents And Transportation Safety (HARSIA) has resigned.
The government’s former transport minister, Kostas Karamanlis, dismissed accusations that he is shirking responsibility for the February 2023 Tempe railway disaster during a debate in Parliament on a no-confidence motion against the administration over its handling of the deadly crash.
A 34-year-old man was arrested for attempting to rob a woman in the northern Athenian suburb of Psychiko on Tuesday night.
A claim by Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis on Wednesday that one of the reasons why the site of last year’s railway disaster in Tempe was covered up shortly after the accident was because a gas pipeline runs directly beneath it was dismissed as a “lie” by an opposition MP.
A 35-year-old seaman, member of the crew of a Maltese-flagged cargo ship docked at the Perama shipyard repair zone, was found hanged in his cabin on Wednesday, Piraeus Central Port Authority said.
Τhe decisions of the EU member states regarding changes in the regulations of the Common Agriculture Policy are a good development, but not enough to alleviate the farmers’ concerns of farmers, said Rural Development and Food Minister Lefteris Avgenakis in an interview with state broadcaster ERT. He added that Greece’s coordinated efforts are bringing results […]
A prosecutor has brought multiple criminal charges against a young man who attacked and injured a student and the principal of a downtown Athens school on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Wednesday that the case of Fredi Beleri, a mayor from Albania’s Greek minority who was recently sentenced to two years in prison for buying votes, should be viewed as a European concern rather than a bilateral issue between the two Balkan neighbors.
At least 63,285 people have perished or disappeared on migration routes around the world between 2014 and 2023, with most deaths caused by drowning, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to travel to Washington for a meeting with US President Joe Biden on May 9, Turkish media reported on Tuesday. However, there has been no official confirmation yet.
Swathes of Greece were shrouded in haze on Wednesday as persistent southerly winds carried waves of dust from the African continent across the eastern Mediterranean. The phenomenon is expected to persist on Thursday.
Greece’s ruling conservatives have accused the leftist SYRIZA opposition of undermining the country’s democracy after a senior official suggested that it would be a “blessing” if the EU’s chief prosecutor investigating the 2013 Tempe railway disaster could potentially oust the government.
In the wake of the gruesome attack last Friday in Moscow and the mounting concerns among Western security and intelligence agencies, the Hellenic Police and the National Intelligence Service have reportedly jointly decided to intensify checks at the country’s entry points, migrant detention centers and beyond.
Farmers threw beets, sprayed manure at police and set hay alight on Tuesday as hundreds of tractors again sealed off streets close to the European Union headquarters, where agriculture ministers sought to ease a crisis that has led to months of protests across the 27-member bloc.
The lawyer of a person who suffered multiple burns during the devastating 2018 fire at the seaside resort of Mati in eastern Attica has submitted a request for the minutes of the trial regarding the state’s handling of the fire and to prosecute the former alternate minister of citizen protection, Nikos Toskas, for false testimony.
The United States and Cyprus said Tuesday they’re formalizing their collaboration in fighting money laundering, sanctions evasion and other financial crimes with an agreement offering Cypriot law enforcement authorities US expertise.
Greece’s political scene is being enveloped with further polarization ahead of June’s European elections with opposition parties filing a no-confidence motion against the government, focusing on the handling of the deadly train crash at Tempe in February last year.
The first and second day of the debate on the no confidence motion tabled by the opposition PASOK party (socialist) will last well past midnight, Parliament speaker Konstantinos Tassoulas announced Tuesday.
The third defendant to testify before the European Public Prosecutor’s Greek representative on Tempe-related contract 717 has been released on bail of €700,000.
An organisation representing young LGBTQ people in Athens has condemned an attack on its offices, blaming it on the youth wing of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group.
A London court has ordered a former curator at the British Museum accused of stealing hundreds of artefacts to provide the museum with a list of all items he is suspected of taking and to return those still in his possession.
Ruling New Democracy has expelled a former MP for comments he made concerning the 2023 Tempe railway disaster in which 57 people, mostly university students, died.