Army colonel charged with multiple bank robberies
A colonel in the Greek Army faces felony charges after being formally accused on Tuesday of holding up at least three Athens banks with the threat of violence.
New York’s St Nicholas Church opens on patron saint’s day
The Church of Saint Nicholas, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, is reopening on Tuesday, the day that its namesake saint is celebrated by the Greek Orthodox world.
Turkish media reports point to more damage at Hagia Sophia
New reports have emerged in the Turkish media regarding more damage to the 6th century Hagia Sophia Orthodox cathedral in Istanbul, which was converted into a mosque in 2020.
A plan to give young Greeks a shot at becoming home owners
Eleni Varvitsioti, the Financial Times correspondent for Greece and Cyprus based in Athens, joins Thanos Davelis to look at a government initiative to give young Greeks, who have been priced out of the property market and forced to cover the cost of soaring rents despite little rise in their real incomes, a chance at homeownership.
Turkish FM warns Greece to ‘back off’
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu lashed out against Greece again on Tuesday, saying that Ankara will do “what is necessary” if Athens does not “back off” and meet its demands to demilitarize the islands of the eastern Aegean.
‘It is too early to declare the decline of the center’
The elections in Italy and the rise of a right-wing coalition under the leadership of Giorgia Meloni sent shockwaves through the heart of the European Union. The center, and especially the center-left, could not reverse the trajectory of its decline.
Parents spooked by pupil’s boiler blast death
Several parents in Thessaloniki kept their children at home on Tuesday following the death a day earlier of an 11-year-old boy in Serres, also in northern Greece, from an exploding school boiler.
Police officer appears in court over teen shooting
A police officer appeared before a court in northern Greece on Tuesday over the shooting of a teenager who allegedly failed to pay a gas station bill, as protesters gathered outside.
Mitsotakis in Albania for summit as Rama accuses Greece of ‘cheating’ for EU entry
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama accused Greece of “cheating” to get into the European Union, just hours before he was due to meet with his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Tirana.
Security ramped up in Athens and Thessaloniki for anniversary of teen’s 2008 murder
Downtown Athens and Thessaloniki will see central thoroughfares being shut down to traffic and public transportation upheavals on Tuesday, as part of security measures for the 14th anniversary of the police shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos.