Two Turkish nationals, aged 29, were arrested on the island of Kos on Thursday for allegedly transporting irregular migrants, endangering lives and causing a shipwreck, following the sinking of a boat off the coast of the island, port authorities said.
The services accessed by the single state digital portal gov.gr will not be available from Friday 11 p.m. to Saturday 9 a.m. due to work to upgrade the system, the Digital Governance Ministry said Friday.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias’ planned visit on Thursday to Tripoli, Libya to meet the head of Libya’s Presidential Council, Mohamed Yunus al-Menfi, a former ambassador to Greece, ended in a diplomatic incident when Dendias refused to meet with the Tripoli-based government’s foreign minister, Najla Mangoush, and, as a result, Libya recalled its ambassador to Athens.
Two men were arrested on Thursday and two more were wanted by police for a series of car thefts and robberies that occurred over three months in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.
Ukraine has few viable options currently to boost grain exports by rail, road or river barge anytime soon if a United Nations-brokered deal with Moscow to export by sea runs into trouble.
A 38-year-old man serving a 20-year prison sentence escaped from a university hospital in Larissa, central Greece, on Thursday night where he was being treated under guard, a local news website reported.
EU home affairs ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss current problems with migration on Nov. 25, the Czech EU Presidency said on Thursday.
The Blank Wall Gallery is hosting a solo show by self-taught and critically acclaimed Cuban documentary and analogue photographer Jose Ney Mila Espinosa.
Five people were arrested, 85 detained and two officers suffered minor injuries during clashes broke out at a march in the northern city of Thessaloniki to the US consulate, to mark the anniversary of a 1973 student uprising that was brutally crushed by Greece’s military dictatorship at the time.
An accident involving seven cars caused peak hour traffic chaos on one of Athens’ busiest motorways on Friday morning.