Journalist Nektaria Stamouli joins The Greek Current to look at how in just a matter of weeks, Athens has become the landing place for more than 700 of Afghanistan’s female judges, lawmakers, journalists and lawyers, together with their families. We also look at at where this decision by Greece to offer accommodation fits within the…
The head of drugmaker Moderna said Covid-19 vaccines are unlikely to be as effective against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus as they have been previously, sparking fresh worry in financial markets about the trajectory of the pandemic.
A Turkish court jailed pending trial Metin Gurcan, a founder of the Turkish opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), over “political and military espionage,” a state-run news agency said on Monday.
The prosecutor’s office in Thessaloniki is investigating a complaint that a woman posing as a health worker asked for a bribe of 3,500 euros from a relative of a patient with coronavirus at the Agios Pavlos Hospital to secure a bed in the intensive care unit.
Five 15-year-olds were scheduled to appear before a Thessaloniki prosecutor after their arrest on Saturday on charges they tried to mug two people on the street with fake weapons, while one of them pointed a phoney gun at police in their patrol car when were called to the scene.
Perhaps France was always going to have a hard time with nonbinary pronouns. Its language is intensely gender-specific and fiercely protected by august authorities. Still, the furor provoked by a prominent dictionary’s inclusion of the pronoun “iel” has been remarkably virulent.
Turnover this Black Friday – that this year was not confined to November 26 but started as early as November 18 for electrical and electronic goods – is estimated to have come up to 85% of that two years ago – i.e. in November 2019.
The Greek government’s strategic priority in tourism is strengthening high-quality investment plans and promoting green entrepreneurship for high-added value, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said in an interview with Newsweek magazine.
The government is “absolutely committed” to a just green transition from lignite use in West Macedonia, while he is personally, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday after a four-hour meeting with representatives of local government, scientists and unions in Kozani.
The benchmark of the Greek stock market only recovered a third of its losses registered on Friday in Monday’s session, but even that rise was welcome in the context of the previous days’ decline.