The Biden administration imposed sanctions on Thursday on prominent Turkish businessman Sitki Ayan and his network of firms, accusing him of acting as a facilitator for oil sales and money laundering on behalf of Iran.
General Political Affairs Counsellor Georgios Arnaoutis was appointed new Foreign Ministry spokesperson, the ministry announced on Friday.
Two new inquiries have been opened relating to an ongoing investigation into the shooting and serious injury of a Roma teenager by police in Thessaloniki last Monday.
A 23-year-old man from Syria was arrested on Friday by Greek border police for entering illegally into the country carrying eight guns and one kilo of crystal methamphetamine.
Authorities say they have foiled an attempted double escape from the Korydallos Prison in western Attica.
A whopping 82% of teenagers and young people say that they have witnessed a violation of another child’s rights, while only a small number of youngsters are sufficiently informed about their rights, as stated in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, a poll for UNICEF Greece showed.
Three men were arrested as members of a criminal gang that broke into stores around the region of Attica and stole cash and electronic devices, police said Saturday.
Eva Kaili, a socialist member and vice president of the European Parliament, has been expelled from her Greek party, PASOK, and suspended from the Parliament’s Socialists and Democrats group after her arrest Friday on suspicion of corruption.
Skyrocketing prices followed closely behind by human rights, economic and social inequalities, the energy crisis and unemployment are the top concerns of young people, according to a recent survey by Metron Analysis, which was conducted on behalf of the Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece.
Police were on standby on Friday evening, fearing that the outbreak of riots and incidents over Monday’s shooting and injury of 16-year-old Kostas Frangoulis by an officer will continue near Roma camps in Attica and Thessaloniki in the coming days.