Teen injured falling on train tracks in Tavros
The alarm was raised on Friday afternoon in the Tavros area of Athens as a 16-year-old boy fell on the suburban train tracks on Konstantinopoleos and Mithymni streets.
Reds and Greens fail to meet expectations
Olympiakos missed the chance to clinch the top spot of the Euroleague table for the regular season, going down on Thursday at Red Star Belgrade, while Panathinaikos lost to visiting Alba Berlin in Athens on Friday.
The Greek who gave $600 million to education
“My wife and I help students study without being shackled by debt on their chosen career path,” says Greek-American Roy Vagelos, 93, a prominent figure in the pharmaceutical industry.
When the anti-system is the system
There are so many absurdities in Greece, and we have put up with them for so long that we think they are normal. When we see the world through a distorting lens, it is natural that we cannot identify the problem, nor solve it.
Charity founder, seven staff members charged in child abuse case
The founder and former head of children’s charity “Kivotos tou Kosmou” (Ark of the World), Father Antonios Papanikolaou, on Friday was formally charged with sexual abuse of minors.
Akar expects ‘moratorium’ in the Aegean between June 15-Sept. 15
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Friday said he expects a moratorium with Greece in military and airforce exercises in the Aegean Sea between June 15 and Sept. 15, to accommodate tourism, as relations continued to thaw following the deadly earthquakes in Turkey last February.
Pierrakakis: More than 99% of public sector services will be digital in four years
More than 99 pct of the services provided by the public sector will be digital in the next four years, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Friday.
Another poke in the eye for environmental protection
It went largely unnoticed. It was an amendment slipped into a piece of draft legislation on measures to support the families of the victims and the survivors of the Tempe rail crash, which essentially paves the way for a special new service – a “tourism development zoning office” if you will – that will be…
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Greece condemns rocket attacks against Israel
Greece condemned on Friday a barrage of rocket attacks against Israel which Israeli military blamed on Palestinian militants and urged both sides to show “restraint”, citing the religious holidays.