Record heating oil applications
Beneficiaries of the heating allowance have posted a record number of applications in the 16 days that the online platform MyThermansi has been open.
Air Force officer killed while attempting to cross avenue
A Chief Master Sergeant of the Greek Air Force was killed while attempting to cross a main avenue in northern Athens early Thursday morning.
Former minister Gerovassili says bank accounts were hacked
The secretary of the main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance parliamentary group and former minister Olga Gerovassili said on Thursday that her back accounts and social media accounts were hacked.
Paros bus driver arrested for statutory rape of three school girls
A 29-year-old man from the island of Paros, southern Greece, was arrested on November 21 for engaging in sexual relations with three students under the age of 15.
Russia’s Gazprom to ship third batch of gas to Greece, Kommersant reports
Russian gas producer Gazprom may ship a third batch of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Revithoussa LNG terminal in Greece, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday.
Ethnofest | Athens | November 24-27
In its 13th edition, the International Ethnographic Film Festival, or Ethnofest (ethnofest.gr), takes inspiration from that number as a symbol of bad luck.
Man allegedly in Thessaloniki hit-and-run surrenders to police
A 26-year-old man suspected of driving a car early Tuesday morning that hit a young woman twice on a central street of Thessaloniki before speeding away, surrendered to the police on Thursday.
We must help victims of sexual violence in Ukraine
Nine months to the day that war in Ukraine began, we read increasing reports of alleged war crimes, including sexual violence against women and girls. Sadly, history is repeating itself.
Employee at explosives company reports gun attack
An employee of the Hellenic Explosives Technology (ELTEK), an explosives company in northern Greece, told police that an unknown man had had shot at him while he was leaving work on Wednesday evening.
Fireplaces, wood stoves as lethal as cars
Smoke from fireplaces and wood stoves and pollutants from vehicles are responsible for around 10,000 premature deaths a year in Greece, according to new data on the impact of air pollution on the health of Greeks included in the European Environment Agency’s annual report published Wednesday.