Traffic has eased on the major thoroughfares out of Athens after the Easter exodus from the capital peaked on the afternoon of Good Friday.
Nikos Michaloliakos, the formerly powerful leader of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has been conditionally released from prison after a decision by the judicial council of Lamia in central Greece.
Turkish exporters with firm orders are looking at ways to send their goods to Israel via third countries after Turkey halted bilateral trade, four export company owners told Reuters, saying the decision had caught them by surprise.
Easter and its central message of the resurrection “serves as the motivation for the struggle against the presence of evil and its consequences in the world, acting as a powerful transformative force,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has said in his Easter encyclical.
A 25-year-old man was arrested in the city of Larisa, central Greece, on Friday after he was spotted walking naked in the town center, local media reported.
A wildfire broke out in low vegetation in Viotia, northwest of Athens, on Friday.
A boat with 33 migrants on board was located by a cargo ship off the southern coast of Crete early Friday morning.
A total of 18 ferries were scheduled to depart from the port of Piraeus on full capacity for the Aegean islands and 32 for the islands of the Argosaronic Gulf on Friday, as the last of Easter travelers depart from Athens.
An 85-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki on Thursday evening for shooting a dog.
The French Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, arrived at NATO pier K14 at Marathi, in Souda (Crete) on Thursday.
Scattered showers, with occasional bursts of sunshine are expected across Greece until Sunday (Orthodox Easter), according to the forecast data released by the National Observatory of Athens on Friday.
Greece’s press freedom index improved, rising 19 places in 2024, but remains last among EU countries. The country has risen to the 88th place from 107th last year out of 180 countries, in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) 2024 World Press Freedom, Index, released on Friday.
Public transport services in Athens will be adjusted for the Greek Orthodox Easter long weekend, from Friday to Wednesday after Easter.
The intention of the Municipality of Karditsa in central Greece to renovate the city’s largest park, known as Pavsilipo, is dividing local society.
Signaling their determination to step up efforts to catch four of the eight suspects implicated in the Greek Mafia investigation who are still evading arrest, the prosecution authorities disclosed the names of all eight on Thursday.
Police on the island of Crete arrested a man on Thursday accused of possessing and trading thousands of firecrackers and flares, which are illegally used during Easter celebrations in Greece.
A 15-year-old girl faces accusations of robbing a 14-year-old at knifepoint in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, snatching her phone.
A pedestrian lost her life on Thursday after getting hit by a motorcycle in the southern Athenian district of Voula.
Police discovered the body of a 43-year-old man, reported missing since April 20, on Thursday in a canal in the rural region of Chalkidona near Thessaloniki in northern Greece.
Turkey has suspended all exports and imports with Israel as of Tursday, according to two Turkish officials briefed on the matter, as reported by Bloomberg. Official statements from Turkey are pending.
The Lamia Court of Appeals Prosecutor intends to appeal the decision of the Lamia Misdemeanor Court, which granted conditional release to Nikos Michaloliakos, convicted of leading the criminal organization of Golden Dawn, sentenced to 13 years and 6 months.
Authorities arrested a 51-year-old man in Iraklio, Crete after discovering child pornography material on a memory card in his residence.
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