A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck off the west coast of Crete on Tuesday evening, the National Observatory of Athens has said. The epicenter of the quake, which occurred at 6.36 p.m., was in an underwater area 98 kilometers southwest of Kythera. The focal depth was estimated at 14 kilometers.
The European Union on Tuesday urged its member countries to deport more people who enter Europe without authorization and who are not eligible to stay, saying that only around one in five would-be migrants who should be sent home actually is.
The European Commission is set to propose a revamp of Europe’s electricity market rules on Tuesday, aimed at expanding the use of fixed-price power contracts to shield consumers from severe price spikes like those experienced last year.
Aegean Airlines and its subsidiary Olympic Air have canceled all scheduled domestic and international flights on Thursday following the decision of air-traffic controllers to join a 24-hour nationwide strike.
Former transport and infrastructure minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, who resigned in the aftermath of the deadly train collision in central Greece that left 57 people dead and scores injured, will appear before the parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee next Monday to testify about the accident and the state of the Greek railways.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu confirmed in a phone call to Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias that authorities would allow the jailed father of a train driver killed in the Tempe train crash to be released from a Turkish prison so that he can attend his son’s funeral.
State-employed archaeologists in Greece launched strike action Tuesday to protest an assault on an archaeologist on the island of Mykonos, an attack they say may have been linked to commercial pressure to extend tourism development.
An appellate-level examining magistrate has summoned three suspects arrested in connection with a deadly train collision in northern Greece last week to testify on Friday (March 17).
Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari, the renowned interwar photographer Nelly’s who captured highlights of the Greek capital like few others, lived two lives and the second began with a piece in Kathimerini nearly 50 years ago. It was titled “Classifieds” and spoke about “looking for traces of the renowned photographer Nelly’s.” It was written […]
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told train company representatives that the restructuring of the country’s railways “is not just a universal demand of Greek society but is now also a personal matter for him.”