Police have launched an investigation after a woman’s body was found in a steep and rocky coastal spot in near the eastern Attica town of Mati. Eight firefighters were involved in the recovery of the body.
Transport workers on Line 1 (Green) of Athens metro will not work from the start of shift until 2 p.m. on Wednesday while workers on metro Lines 2 (Red) and 3 (Blie) have said they will walk off the job at 6 p.m. until the end of shift.
Police have said they booked 13,683 traffic violations during a total of 59,832 checks carried out over the Clean Monday long weekend. Almost three in ten (28.8%) of the violations were for speeding (3,283 cases) and driving under the influence of alcohol (652 cases).
Greece welcomes Monday’s agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom on Northern Ireland, Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis has said. “After a long round of negotiations between the two sides, logic and realism prevailed,” he underlined.
Flights between Athens and the Libyan city of Benghazi will launch on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. The Athens-Benghazi-Athens flights will be carried out by air carriers Air Mediterranean and Marathon Airlines.
Another suspect in the case of the pimping and rape of a 12-year-old girl in Athens has been remanded pre-trial detention after testifying before an investigating magistrate.
NATO membership for Finland and Sweden is “a top priority,” the military alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday, urging members Turkey and Hungary to urgently ratify the Nordic countries’ accession.
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has said it was his decision to remove Pavlos Polakis from his position as shadow minister for transparency, in his first public comments on the recent controversy sparked by a social media post from the firebrand lawmaker.
Friday’s cabinet meeting will decide on the date of the upcoming general election, Government Spokesperson Yiannis Oikonomou has indicated.
A television outlet on the popular holiday island of Mykonos has released a video casting fresh light on the shooting death of a 34-year-old Albanian national outside a bar on February 20.