Planetarium | Athens | All Year
There’s a great day of family fun to be had at the Eugenides Foundation, which has all sorts of fun and informative shows and screenings on its program this season.
Shipping company says it had no knowledge of drugs found on bulker
The Greek shipping company that owns a bulker on which Italian authorities found a stash of cocaine worth €150m have said “neither the crew nor the company was involved in any way” with the drugs.
Writing history through the eyes of slaves
A very important research project on the history of slaves in antiquity, led by Kostas Vlassopoulos, associate professor of ancient history at the University of Crete and collaborating faculty member at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (IMS), is attempting to answer questions like those raised by German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht in his 1935…
Dendias: Greece promotes collaboration between EU, Arab world
The international community must aim at safeguarding Syria’s sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity, Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias has said, during the welcoming remarks of the Athens Retreat on Syria.
Skyros: 27 migrants found on county road
At least 27 migrants and refugees were located on a country road on the island of Skyros on Wednesday while a sailing boat and an auxiliary boat used for their transport were found in a nearby bay.
Gerapetritis in call with Italian counterpart about railways
The ministers responsible for transport in Greece and Italy hope to hold a face-to-face meeting in the near future, following a call between them on Friday.
Erdogan says interest rates will fall as long as he is in power
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that interest rates will fall as long as he is in power, and that inflation will decline with them, repeating his unorthodox views. Erdogan was speaking in Istanbul weeks before a presidential election on May 14.
Western Balkans see boom in solar energy but grids unprepared
Western Balkan nations are seeing a boom in solar energy investment, which could help ease a power crisis that had threatened a shift away from coal, but industry officials say transmission systems are not prepared for new energy feeds.
Dendias meets UN Special Envoy for Syria
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen on Friday met with Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias at the Foreign Ministry in Athens to discuss the latest developments in Syria.
Tsipras holds talks with German chancellor in Berlin
Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin Friday for talks that focused on economic and geopolitical developments in Europe and the world, SYRIZA’s plan for a progressive governance, foreign policy and the need of political cooperation to contain the threat…