Six minors arrested for attacking and stealing from students
Six minors were arrested for attacking and stealing from junior high schoolers on Monday evening in the Athenian municipality of Elefsina.
Can PASOK overtake SYRIZA as Greece’s main opposition?
Tom Ellis, the editor-in-chief of Kathimerini English Edition, joins Thanos Davelis to look at whether PASOK can build on the latest polls that show it overtaking SYRIZA and take advantage of the crisis in SYRIZA to establish itself as Greece’s main opposition.
Spartiates MPs summoned to testify to charges of election fraud next week
Ten MPs from the far-right Spartiates (Spartan) party and an eleventh ex-member of its parliamentary group now serving as an independent, were sent a summons by a Supreme Court prosecutor on Tuesday to testify next week in an ongoing investigation into the party’s ascent to the House.
Tilda Swinton, Olivier Saillard coming to Athens for show-tribute to Pasolini
Academy Award-winning British actress Tilda Swinton and distinguished fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard are unveiling the results of their most recent collaboration at the Onassis Foundation Cultural Center in Athens next month.
Woman accused of trying to kidnap teen boy
The parents of a 15-year-old boy in the eastern Athens suburb of Vyronas filed a complaint with the police on Monday claiming that a woman had tried to coax their son into her car on two occasions and was stalking him.
Greek economy seen growing by 2.9% next year on strong investment
Greece expects its economy to grow faster in 2024 on the back of strong projected tourist inflows, higher investment and domestic demand, the government’s 2024 final budget showed on Tuesday.
Stormy weather sweeping in from the west
Greece’s national weather service, EMY, issued an emergency bulletin on Tuesday, warning that strong storms are seen sweeping into Greece starting in the evening of the same day.
‘Strange work of propaganda’ at play in Mideast war, says US analyst
Turkey’s desire to “re-enact bygone imperial glories” by changing course with regard to its relationship with the West “cannot end well,” according to the well-known Canadian-American political commentator and analyst David Frum.
Hit by floods and fires, a Greek villager has lost hope
The fires came first. Then the floods. In the small village of Sesklo in central Greece, 46-year old Vasilis Tsiamitas has felt the extremes of both freak weather phenomena this summer that have made Greece a climate change hotspot.
Sexual predators on the rise, data shows
Revealing unsettling data on the sexual abuse of children on Monday, Deputy Parliament Speaker Odysseas Konstantinopoulos said it is an “obligation and duty of everyone to protect our children from sexual predators.”