Every possible avenue will be exhausted to establish what led to the Tempi rail disaster, a member of the special investigative commission appointed by the government has said.
Athina Katsara, a 34-year-old mother of an infant boy, was buried in her home town of Katerini, in the north of the country. Her injured husband was in hospital and unable to attend.
Hussam Naim, a Palestinian surgeon who was on duty at Larissa general hospital on the night of the Tempi rail disaster, has said the scenes facing him reminded him of Gaza.
Students and schoolchildren in various parts of the country have taken to the streets to express their anger and grief at Tuesday’s railway disaster in Tempi. in which at least 57 people, most of them students, lost their lives.
The US Embassy in Athens has issued a “demonstration alert,” advising its citizens “to avoid areas of demonstrations and exercise greater caution around universities, Hellenic Train offices” and other areas.
Greece’s jobless rate eased to 10.8% in January, down from an upwardly revised 12.4% in December, data from statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.
Police in Athens have said they have identified five members of a Pink Panthers-style international criminal gang as the culprits of an armed robbery of an Athens jewelry shop in December, in which goods to the value of €135,000 were stolen.
The global threat of obesity also lingers in Greece, where four in 10 adults and almost one in four children and teenagers will be obese by 2035 if preventive measures aren’t taken to offset the current trends, according to the World Obesity Atlas for 2023 published on Thursday by the World Obesity Federation.
As part of the re-emerging trend of printed photography, the industrious Greek photographer Angelos Christofilopoulos has recently published PAUSEIS – the silence in between – a monthly independent magazine.
Miltiadis (Miltos) Tentoglou, of Greece, makes an attempt in the men’s long jump qualification at the European Athletics Indoor Championships at Atakoy Arena in Istanbul, Friday.