All 105 soccer fans suspected of being involved in extensive clashes in the Greek capital that ended in the death of a 29-year-old AEK Athens supporter have been ordered to be detained pending their trial.
Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis is due to travel to Himare on Monday to meet with members of the ethnic-Greek community in the southern Albanian city.
The Coast Guard says it has rescued 48 migrants attempting to enter the country illegally on an inflatable boat.
In celebration of the centenary of Maria Callas’ birth, the renowned opera “Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini, a favorite of the legendary Greek soprano, takes the stage at the Herod Atticus Theater, at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.
Podcasts, an unknown word and means of broadcasting as recently as 20 years ago, now have an estimated global audience of 400 million and the market is expected to be worth over $20 billion by the end of the year.
A 4.9 magnitude earthquake shook Crete on Sunday morning at approximately 10.49 a.m. The quake’s epicenter was identified 7 kilometers south of Sougia in the Hania administrative region, at a depth of 10.7 kilometers.
A foreign national was arrested at Kipi, the border station with Turkey, when she tried to leave Greece with her underage child, which has been registered in the United Kingdom as “missing”.
A patient who was undergoing treatment at the surgery clinic of the Attikon Hospital in western Athens committed suicide by plunging from a fourth floor window, according to announcement on Saturday by the president of the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Public Hospital Workers, Michalis Giannakos.
Health authorities worldwide are concerned about the rapid spread of the new EG.5.1 subvariant (Eris) of the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2.
Police in Athens arrested two people in connection with a shooting incident outside a club on Vouliagmenis Avenue on Saturday morning.