In the 1937 movie “A Damsel in Distress,” Fred Astaire sang for the first time Gershwin’s song “A Foggy Day (in London Town).” Two lines in the lyrics, “I viewed the morning, with much alarm / the British Museum had lost its charm,” suddenly became very timely.
Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe and free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there, the Cypriot Interior Ministry said Friday.
In an initiative of academic, diplomatic and political significance, University of Patras Rector Christos Bouras and Andreas Vafiadis, the president of the Hellenic Community of Alexandria, will on Friday sign a memorandum of university cooperation.
A 9mm revolver used in the murder of six young Turks in the east Attica town of Loutsa on September 11 last week has been recovered two kilometers from the murder scene. While the weapon contains no fingerprints, a ballistics investigation showed that it was used in the multiple murder.
The previous two months have seen a significant increase in migrant flows, pushing the islands’ reception and hospitality facilities to their breaking point.
Greece will seek to make climate and migration central tenets of its work on the UN Security Council should its candidacy for the body for 2025/2026 be successful, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the 78th UN General Assembly on Thursday.
A red panda has been born in Attica Zoological Park in Spata, east of Athens, the park has said. The unnamed two-month old panda, which was presented to the public for the first time last weekend, is still very closely attached to its mother, Jay.
SYRIZA leadership race frontrunner Stefanos Kasselakis has come under fire for his description of the Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus as “their statelet.”
The Financial Crimes Squad, known in Greece as SDOE, detected illegal cigarettes and fuel, illegal grants, counterfeit products and drugs in its summer checks.
The number of unemployed people registered in the Public Employment Service (DYPA) dipped to below 900,000 for the first time in 12 years in August, new data from the agency shows. Some 897,543 unemployed people were on DYPA’s books in August, the lowest figure since the 763,305 registered in August 2011.