Police investigating drive-by shooting at Athens grill house
Unknown assailants in a car opened fire at a grill house in Agia Varvara Square in western Attica.
Adapting to change
Criticism of civil protection has shifted quietly from “Where is the state?” to “Why does the state intervene and close roads and schools?”
With common sense in the application of regulations we would have fewer victims
Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Gaziantep, Turkey is the strongest in the Eastern Mediterranean in 100 years.
Diving into the world of the dead
Iordanis Dimakopoulos is an architect and erstwhile director of restoration of ancient monuments at the Greek Ministry of Culture, where, among others, he worked on the site of the Royal Tombs of Vergina in northern Greece. He is also the author of the book “Kelyfi Prostasias en Eidei Tymvou” (1993), in […]
Athens hotel rates rise 14.4% in a year
The average price of rooms in Athens hotels increased by 14.4% last year, despite the fact that occupancy rates were 10.7% lower than in 2019, the last year before the Covid-19 pandemic started.
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US aim: Defuse Greek-Turkish tensions
Maintaining the peace between the two nominal NATO allies, Greece and Turkey, at a time when both face important elections, is a priority for US diplomacy.
St Paul’s Sessions | Athens | March 4, April 1 & 29, May 6
One of the Greek capital’s most interesting and innovative music events, St Paul’s Sessions has moved out of the Anglican church where it started and into the Athens Conservatory.
Stock market hits 100-month high
One hundred months: That is how long it has taken the Greek bourse benchmark to return to the right side of the 1,040-point mark, as on Tuesday it enjoyed further gains that brought it to highs unseen since early October 2014.
The €250-mln business plan for Larco
The joint venture of GEK Terna and AD Holdings, officially declared last week as the preferred investor for mining company Larco’s mines and factory, has a 250-million-euro business plan aimed at gradually increasing the production of ferro-nickel and nickel sulfate to 20,000 tons per year.