Foreign visitors are flocking back to Greece’s islands and ancient monuments, raising hopes for its vital tourism industry after a turbulent two years, though the impact of high inflation means a return to normal may still be some way off.
The civil protection agency is on alert following a severe weather warning issued by the National Meteorological Service for Friday and Saturday, especially for central and northern Greece.
Investigators looking into a pre-dawn attack on a tax office in the northern Athens suburb of Maroussi are not ruling out domestic terrorism as a motive.
Greece’s highest administrative court on Thursday issued a ruling annulling a ministerial decision allowing schools to exempt certain pupils from attending religion classes at the behest of their parents.
On Wednesday a group of self-styled anarchists launched a dawn raid on riot police in the Exarchia district of Athens and detonated an incendiary device at the entrance to the apartment building where New Democracy MP Babis Papadimitriou lives.
Award-winning Greek choreographer Katerina Andreou laments the loss of the promise of the 1980s and 1990s in a solo show as part of the Athens-Epidaurus Festival.
Kathimerini attended Amazon’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas last month, where more than 5,000 engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs presented the new trends in cutting-edge technologies that will dominate this century: machine learning, automation, robotics and space technology.
Wednesday’s debate in Parliament was carried out in an almost pre-election climate – unsurprising given the recent government leaks, pressure from the main opposition and growing calls from almost all the parties for elections as soon as possible.
The crew of a Panama-flagged freighter had to rescued by a navy helicopter after it started taking on water for as yet unknown reasons while sailing 90 nautical miles off Pylos early on Thursday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ assurances that elections will be held at the end of the government’s four-year term, as well as the overt pre-election undertones in all of the political leaders’ statements, characterized Wednesday’s parliamentary session.