New campus to breathe new life into Western Macedonia
The University of Western Macedonia has acquired a new modern campus in Kozani in northern Greece covering 94.8 hectares.
Stolen Picasso’s damage not visible to naked eye
Although the case of the two stolen works from the National Art Gallery in Athens was closed with last month’s trial and conviction of the thief, Pablo Picasso’s “Head of a Woman” failed to escape without scar, despite that being invisible to the naked eye. The work now on display in the gallery has certainly…
Procurement plan for C-130J transport planes
After two embarrassing incidents in succession, Athens is reportedly oriented toward the procurement of a number of new C-130J aircraft which are the latest version of the American transport aircraft.
Greece moves to block remnants of Golden Dawn from running as elections near
Niki Kitsantonis, a freelance journalist in Athens writing for the New York Times, joins Thanos Davelis as we look at the Greek parliament’s vote to ban a far-right political party led by a jailed former member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and discuss its broader significance.
Earthquake compounds Turkish leader’s woes as election nears
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power 20 years ago riding a wave of public outrage toward the previous government’s handling of a deadly earthquake.
Police make arrests in criminal passport racket
Police in Athens have dismantled a gang accused of selling genuine Greek passports to third-country nationals so they could travel to other parts of the European Union.
Mortgage subsidy applications reach 14,000 in 10 days
Applications from vulnerable households for having banks subsidize the installments of their loan secured against their first home have so far reached 14,000 in just 10 days.
Two women survive for days in earthquake rubble as death toll tops 24,150
Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they were been trapped for 122 hours following the region’s deadliest quake in two decades, authorities said on Saturday.
Athens municipality opposes plan to relocate ministries
The Municipality of Athens has expressed its opposition to the plan to transfer the services of nine ministries and 14,000 civil servants from the city center to the Pyrkal site in Ymittos, where the government envisages the creation of a new green area.
Turkey’s earthquake through the eyes of an award-winning AP photojournalist
Associated Press photojournalit Petros Giannakouris tells Kathimerini about the realities on the ground in earthquake-stricken southern Turkey