As pressure builds on the capital’s main landfill at Fyli, northwestern Athens, Attica’s Solid Waste Management Authority has appealed to the Environment Ministry for approval to use an extension to the overburdened facility, it has emerged.
Charles “Charlie” Riddington, the UK murder suspect who was apprehended in August by Turkish Cypriot authorities, is now in the custody of the Republic of Cyprus.
In almost any other country – even Greece in days gone by – Defense Minister Panos Kammenos would have been ousted for defying the government line and presenting his own foreign policy.
New Democracy really should make a point of ensuring that it is represented in the upcoming local government elections by candidates who signal a drive for renewal in the conservative party.
Eleven people thought to be migrants were killed in a head-on collision between the vehicle they were traveling in and a truck near the northern city of Kavala in the early hours of Saturday. The truck driver, a 39-year-old Greek man, managed to escape his vehicle before a fire broke out, and was hospitalized with minor injuries, but those in the suspected smuggling vehicle were not so lucky. Police said in a statement that the vehicle carrying the 11 victims was linked to a smuggling operation. Читать дальше...
Two police officers are among nine suspects detained on Saturday in connection with a large cross-border drug dealing racket believed to have been supplying cocaine and cannabis in several Greek cities.
Greece’s State High School Teachers’ Federation (OLME) has expressed its opposition to state schools accepting private donations, claiming that such a practice could bring about the “full commodification of the education sector.”
The Greek Police (ELAS) is inaugurating a scheme on Monday that will increase the presence of foot patrols in Athens, Thessaloniki other cities.
Police in Athens are seeking three armed robbers who held up a jewelry shop in the western suburb of Aghioi Anargyroi late on Friday.
The Elena Venizelou General & Maternity Hospital in Athens will be offering free checkups from October 29 to November 2 as part of the Breast Cancer Prevention initiative.
Following its success in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, the Dinosaur Park is bringing a selection of its exhibits to Athens's Helexpo Center for a display that runs through January 6.
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will only be able to join NATO and the European Union if it implements the name change deal with Greece, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said.
The Migration Ministry is in talks with the Municipality of Thessaloniki to find a space to host migrants and refugees arriving in the northern port city from Greece’s northeastern land border with Turkey, as inflows through Evros have been rising at an alarming rate over recent months.
Greek police say they have recovered the bodies of 11 people believed to be migrants who recently crossed from Turkey, after the car they were travelling in crashed in northern Greece.
A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry has expressed dismay at what it described as "unwarranted" claims made during a joint meeting of Cypriot, Egyptian and Greek leaders last week that focused on the delineation of the exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of Greece and Egypt.
