A man was arrested on suspicion of arson on the island of Mykonos on Tuesday following an inquiry by the relevant Hellenic Fire Service investigators. The man is being accused of setting a fire in an area with domestic lots in the island’s region of Maou Ano Meras.
A marble head of a child retrieved from the ashes of Smyrna, on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, is currently on display at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens as part of the “Unseen Museum” project which brings to the fore antiquities stored in its vaults.
Finance Ministry officials are betting on extra revenue from tourism to fund any additional support measures to households to help alleviate the burden of rising prices. And, thus far, the tourism sector seems to be obliging, thanks to a record season.
The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University presents an optimistic view of the worldwide economic disruption caused by the energy crisis and the rise in prices, and believes that it does not constitute a crisis.
The village of Megala Alonia in the northern part of the Ionian island of Zakynthos is now under evacuation orders as a wildfire threatens the area.
The supporting legal documents for the acquisition of a 67% share in the Igoumenitsa Port Authority have been unsealed.
Greek authorities say a major search and rescue operation has been launched east of the island of Karpathos after a boat reportedly carrying dozens of migrants sank during the night.
Greece will exit the European Union’s so-called enhanced surveillance framework on August 20, its finance minister said on Wednesday, a move that will allow the country greater freedom in making economic policy.
PASOK MP Andreas Loverdos, a former health minister, has been cleared of all charges in connection with the Novartis affair.
Greece’s coastguard has saved 29 people, most of them believed to be irregular migrants from Afghanistan, after their boat ran into difficulty off the south coast of Rhodes island in the eastern Aegean.