Modiano Market gets its sparkle back
The lights go back on briefly at the Modiano Market, and photographs from the testing of the listed monument’s new lighting system quickly start making the rounds on social media.
Drilling rig diplomacy
When Turkish Energy Fatih Minister Donmez said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would announce the drilling zone of the Abdulhamid Han, expectations and concerns were raised about the choice of location and whether it could cause tension in the field between Athens and Ankara.
Andrea Bocelli | Halkidiki
The Sani Festival at the luxury resort of the same name in Halkidiki, northern Greece, comes to an end on August 20 with a concert by the ever-popular Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
The election of muftis, the minority, and Turkey
Turkey reacted to the Greek Parliament’s decision to constitute an expanded electoral body, comprising 33 Islamic clerics from the Muslim minority of Thrace, who will form an advisory board that will scrutinize the candidates for the role of muftis.
Testimony to a Cyclades forever gone
There was a time when the Cyclades – famed for their whitewashed villages with blue-domed churches clinging to hillsides descending to bays of crystalline waters – had not been discovered by tourism.
Great Greeks of international biotechnology
Dr Simos Simeonidis grew up in Athens. His father died of a heart attack at the age of 49, and his mother, although it would mean being separated from her only son, encouraged him to study in the United States, where he specialized in molecular biology and became a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Mitsotakis attends Dormition services at Tinos
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended religious services for the day of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary on the island of Tinos Monday.
Historical moments
Those in positions of responsibility must always keep in mind two fundamental principles: that they will not be there forever and that their acts will define not just their own fate but that of a country
Police say migrants on Evros islet are ‘outside Greek territory’
About 40 migrants reported by aid groups to have been stranded for days on a river islet inside a restricted military zone at the border with Turkey are located at a point “outside Greek territory,” a statement from police headquarters in Athens said on Sunday.
Police find €1.5m and drugs after former reality TV contestant crashes into court car park
Police found €1.2 million in cash, as well as large amounts of cocaine, cannabis and other drugs, in the car that a 33-year-old former reality TV contestant forcibly drove into a courthouse parking lot on Saturday morning. Another €300,000 was subsequently recovered in a raid on the man’s home.