A 30-year-old German national wanted on an international arrest warrant was detained on the Dodecanese island of Kos early Thursday morning as part of a wider police operation in Germany to clamp down on suspected drug dealers and far-right extremists.
The death has been announced of Peter Mackridge, emeritus professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford and honorary Greek citizen.
Celebrating its status as European Cultural Capital for 2023, the West Attica town of Elefsina has opened up old factories and public venues to a rich program of events.
The leaders of Greece and Cyprus sought Friday to tamp down tensions with neighboring Turkey amid increasingly belligerent rhetoric from the Turkish president, insisting that the best way to counter such talk is through “calm and composed determination.”
The European Union gave its blessing on Friday to Ukraine to become an official candidate to join the bloc, along with its neighbor Moldova, an historic eastward shift in Europe’s outlook brought about by Russia’s invasion.
The Greek state is suing Swiss-American multinational pharmaceutical giant Novartis for 214 million euros, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Friday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday it was important to keep communication channels open with Turkey, despite sharp rhetoric which has heightened tension between the two neighbors.
Against the backdrop of seemingly relentless tension, the defense ministers of Greece and Turkey, Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Hulusi Akar, agreed during a short chat on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday to keep their channels of communication open.
Police in Athens have arrested a 17-year-old man who is accused of blackmailing the father of his 14-year-old girlfriend by threatening to post intimate photographs of her on the internet.
Bottler Coca-Cola HBC and its existing customers in Russia are “in the process of depleting stock,” Coca-Cola Co said in a statement, after Reuters reported that Coke was for sale at a McDonald’s Corp franchise in St. Petersburg.