Student housing costs more
The cost of student housing has shot up significantly this year, with Athens recording rises of more than 53% on average, in relation to 2017, in the cost of rent.
Man led to jail after sexual abuse of minors, pornography charges
A 62-year-old former primary school principal was sent to pretrial detention on Monday after testifying before an investigative magistrate over charges of child pornography, sexual acts and abuse of minors and violation of the legislation on the protection of personal data.
Athens responds to ramping Turkish rhetoric
Government spokesperson Giannis Oikonomou responded to the latest round of escalating Turkish rhetoric on Monday, this time by Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, stating that its primary purpose could be for domestic consumption.
Mitsotakis travelling to Paris to meet Macron
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is travelling to Paris on Monday, where he is to have a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace, his office said Monday.
Three men escape Haidari police station, one quickly recaptured
Police on Monday was searching for two suspected criminals who escaped from a holding cell in Haidari police station on Sunday afternoon.
Two injured in sailboat fire in Alimos marina
Two people were injured on Monday when a fire broke out on a sailboat anchored in the Alimos marina in southern Athens.
Komotini woman set on fire by husband dies
A 55-year-old woman who was being treated in hospital for severe burns after her husband set her ablaze has died in hospital, state-run broadcaster ERT said Monday.
Alexandroupolis: A vital Asset for Transatlantic Security
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is rapidly raising the strategic profile and potential of Alexandroupolis, a Greek port town in Thrace on the northern Aegean Sea.
Seafarers union: Iran to release crew of two seized Greek tankers
Iran has agreed to release the crews of two Greek tankers it seized in May in the Gulf in response to the confiscation of oil by the United States from an Iranian-flagged tanker in Greece, the Greek union of commercial ships’ seafarers said.
Exhibition on 1922 refugee sanctuaries
A refugee shelter is seen inside the 5th century Church of the Virgin Mary Acheiropoietos, in Thessaloniki, in 1919.