It was approximately 5.20 a.m. on the morning of July 20, 1974, when I was awakened by the ring of a telephone in my home in Nicosia. The correspondent of the Athens News Agency, and my personal friend, Georgios ‘Kokkos’ Leonidas wished me good morning and advised that I look out the window. The sky…
The invitation to northern Europeans to spend the winter in warm Greece started almost as wishful thinking, but is evolving into a Greek-German initiative that is being extended to other countries such as the Netherlands.
Inspections by financial police between July 13 and Monday at catering establishments, mainly restaurants and bars, on the popular tourist islands of Mykonos and Zakynthos, and in Thessaloniki found that 18 of them had failed to comply with relevant labor legislation and tax laws.
This time the Greek stock market held on to its early gains, and despite the very narrow trade, with turnover failing even to reach 30 million euros, the benchmark at Athinon Avenue returned back above the psychologically important level of 800 points on Monday.
The Albanian government on Monday said its webpage and all those of the public institutions have been shut down following a cyberattack from an undisclosed source.
A Greek American journalist was detained by intelligence officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo after he allegedly approached armed groups in the country’s southeast, a senior government official said on Sunday.
Residents of Saktouria and Kato Saktouria, in the Cretan prefecture of Rethymno, were instructed to evacuate their homes on Monday afternoon due to a forest fire in their area.
The Holy Synod of Greece’s Orthodox Church unanimously voted on Monday to send a letter of protest to Archbishop of America Elpidophoros over his decision to baptize the twin children of a same-sex couple in the Athens suburb of Glyfada last week.
If the coalition talks fail, which analysts say is more than likely, the president must dissolve parliament, appoint a caretaker government, and schedule another early parliamentary election,
The mission of judges has become very difficult nowadays. Amid an angry and divided society and a highly polarized political landscape, judges are called upon to make decisions on high-profile cases that are laden with ulterior motives.