Billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt has agreed to turn over $70 million worth of stolen antiquities and will be subject to an unprecedented lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities.
A different pope, a spiritual leader who teaches with his attitude toward life, who radiates unusual sincerity and compassion, brought to Greece and Cyprus the message of love and peaceful coexistence of people, nations and religions.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to discuss the whole range of issues affecting Greece and Russia in his meeting on Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Unimpressed by the gross domestic product data, which showed a 13.4% annual jump in the third quarter in Greece, traders at the Athens stock market showed little interest in positioning themselves through purchases, with just a handful of blue chips demonstrating notable gains.
The Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE), along with DIW Berlin and Crowdpolicy, are organizing an event in English on Tuesday.
Pope Francis said on Monday he was willing to go to Moscow for to meet Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill “brother to brother” in what would be the first trip by a pope to Russia.
A man in his forties was murdered in the Athens suburb of Galatsi on Monday. According to early reporting from the scene, the man was leaving a gym when four unknown men pulled up and shot at the man before fleeing the scene.
An autopsy carried out on a 25-year-old man who was in the care of a center for people with disabilities in Thessaloniki has established he died as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage and myocardial ischemia.
Seeking to introduce more transparency to the appointment of university professors, the Education Ministry is pondering a new oversight body.
Alpha Bank, one of Greece’s four largest banks, has agreed to sell its Albanian unit to Hungary’s OTP Bank, it said on Monday. OTP Bank will pay €55 million to buy a 100% stake in the asset, Alpha Bank said.