The suspect in the murder of a 17-year-old Afghan man, whose body was found in a street in the Athens district of Votanikos last week, was arrested near the North Macedonia border on Thursday. Police spotted the suspect, a 24-year-old Afghan national, at Idomeni railway station.
Teenager Munasar Muhidin says he fled Somalia in 2020 after Islamist militants killed most of his family and that his brother died trying to cross by boat from Turkey to Greece. He hoped he had finally found a place of refuge in the Netherlands.
By Thursday, 93% of the expected income tax returns had been filed, with nearly two thirds of those (65.37%) assessed having to pay no extra tax beyond that already prepaid through payroll and other means, the Independent Public Revenue Authority said.
Turkey’s central bank shocked markets on Thursday by cutting its main interest rate by 100 basis points to 13%, saying it needed to keep driving economic growth despite inflation hitting nearly 80% and a monetary tightening trend among its peers worldwide.
It is an unlikely geopolitical flashpoint: a concrete pier in a little coastal city, barely used a few years ago and still occupied only by sea gulls most of the time.
Vehicle seller Mercedes-Benz Hellas will be acquired by Swiss group Emil Frey, it was announced Thursday.
Police announced the arrest of a 40-year-old housemaid over a string of thefts in an apartment building in the southern Athens coastal suburb of Voula.
Almost one in two (44.3%) Greek respondents in the World Values Survey (WVS) said they believe hell exists. The latest poll, which began in 2017 and ended in 2021, was part of a global project that has been around since 1981.
There was no letup in Ankara’s challenges to Greek sovereignty in the eastern Aegean on Thursday, as 10 Turkish Air Force fighter jets and a drone were reportedly involved in a total of 80 violations of Greek airspace, with four of them turning into overflights.
With life in the capital slowly returning to normal after the peak of the summer holidays, experts predict that traffic will be especially heavy on the streets of Athens as of September.