Two people, one believed to be a migrant and the other the alleged trafficker, died Saturday in northern Greece while trying to evade a police checkpoint, police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki said.
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios has wrapped up his successful week-long visit to northern Greece that was crowned with a visit to Mount Athos, home to the oldest surviving monastic community in the world, where he marked the 30th anniversary of his election to the Ecumenical Throne.
A wildfire raged out of control on the outskirts of Athens on Saturday, damaging houses and cars, the Fire Department said.
A decision by the Municipality of Alimos, a seaside suburb in southern Athens, to halt the nuisance of noise from the local nightclubs by applying restrictions on loud music after 11 p.m. exposes the central administration, which shows suspicious indifference toward impunity.
Since when did informing Greek citizens become a bargaining chip between the state and private companies?
Just before midnight on Good Friday, Heracles Moskof, Greece’s special secretary for the protection of unaccompanied minors, called Sofia Kouvelaki, CEO of The HOME Project, an organization that supports unaccompanied child refugees, to announce the news: “The children have just crossed the border at Promachonas [in northern Greece],” he told her with great relief.
A wildfire raged on the outskirts of Athens on Saturday, burning cars, threatening homes and power lines, a fire brigade official said.
Hailed by Vogue as one of the hottest and sexiest bands around right now, Texas-based dream-pop band Cigarettes After Sex is playing at Athens’ Technopolis cultural complex.
Mediterranean countries on major migrant routes into Europe expect over 150,000 arrivals this year as food shortages caused by the Ukraine conflict threaten a new migration wave from Africa and the Middle East.
Greek health authorities announced 3,313 new Covid-19 infections for the 24-hour period ending 9 a.m. Saturday, from 3,641 on Friday.