US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has thanked representatives of the Greek disaster response teams and ambulance service teams for their recent work in earthquake-affected areas in Turkey.
George B. Dertilis, one of Greece’s leading contemporary historians, has died aged 84. Born in Athens in 1939, he was professor emeritus of the University of Athens, where he taught modern and contemporary history.
Five people were arrested on Monday morning during a police raid in two Roma settlements in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, authorities said.
A 50-year-old man was arrested on the island of Samos, in the eastern Aegean, for allegedly transporting 25 irregular migrants from the Turkish coast to the island, the Coast Guard said on Tuesday.
A prosecutor in the town of Volos, central Greece, is investigating the alleged bullying of two young boys by classmates in school, after their parents filed criminal charges against the suspects.
A professor in the Psychology Department at Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University says that she was “held hostage” in her office for around three hours last Friday, and was threatened and blackmailed because she failed 28% of the students in her class.
British political scientist Kevin Featherstone was granted an honorary Greek citizenship on Tuesday for his work on contemporary Greece and European Union.
Former Conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis announced Tuesday that he will not be running in the next general elections to be held later this year.
Doctors are describing a desperate situation at healthcare facilities in Attica that are part of the National Health System (ESY) and are calling for staff recruitments, increased funding and pay reviews.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Aegean Sea rivals Greece and Turkey to engage to resolve differences and avoid unilateral actions that could increase tension.