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The Traffic Police are to be out in force over the weekend as thousands of Greeks abandon cities for their villages for the long weekend in a bid to ensure that increased traffic does not lead to a rise in accidents and fatalities. 

A moderate undersea quake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale occurred off the southern Aegean island of Kassos in the early hours of Friday, though there were no reports of any damage or injuries.

A wet front is expected to sweep into the country from southern Italy on Friday and bring rain and thunderstorms to many parts, according to a bulletin issued by the Athens National Observatory’s meteorological service.

Fire service rescuers on Friday confirmed that a body found near the Saketa military based on Athens’ Mount Hymettus is that of a 54-year-old man who went missing two days earlier.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly instructed government officials to “do a study” on how to change the status of Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine-era Greek Patriarchal cathedral that was later transformed into an Ottoman mosque before becoming a museum in 1935.

Greece has no need to tap the eurozone’s pandemic credit line at present, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Friday.

Austrian Airlines (AUA) announced on Thursday in Vienna that it is increasing its July charter flights to Greece by 20% compared to July 2019, instead of the originally planned 5% increase. 

Turkey is planning to resume international flights to 40 countries in the upcoming period in June, local media reported on Thursday.

In just seven hours, as many as 10,000 companies applied for low-interest loans that are guaranteed by the state through the Guarantee Fund, exhausting the amount available at this initial stage of the process, Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis announced on Thursday.

Greece’s three main supermarket chains, Sklavenitis, AB Vassilopoulos and MyMarket, appear to be the biggest winners from the massive rise in turnover in organized food retail.

Hundreds of Greeks danced and sang from their cars at a drive-in music concert, the first such event since the country banned mass gatherings to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Ahead of opening day on Monday, open-air movie theaters in Athens are putting the finishing touches in their venues, tidying up, disinfecting, pruning the plants and arranging the seating so there’s a distance of at least 1.5 meters between members of the audience.

A recently founded environmental group, Dive in Action, is organizing an ambitious cleanup of the old Fira harbor that once served as the main port for the popular Greek holiday island of Santorini.

Myrtis, the celebrated reconstruction of a 5th century BC young Athenian girl whose remains were unearthed during excavations back in the 1990s, stars in a new animated video designed to increase awareness about the coronavirus pandemic.

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) has condemned racial inequality in the United States following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of police in Minneapolis last week.