A criminal appeals court in Thessaloniki has jailed two prison officers for selling cellphones to inmates. A 60-year-old warden received a nine-year two month sentence while his accomplice, aged 38, received an eight-year eight-month term.
The Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) sees gross domestic product growing by 2.4% next year.
A Syrian national is facing misdemeanor charges after he was arrested for creating a disturbance in the Church of Agios Panteleimonas, in the center of Athens, on Thursday evening.
Police bomb disposal experts have rushed to Mount Parnitha, in northern Athens, after a walker spotted hand grenades on a path. According to state broadcaster ERT, the cache comprises four grenades. The area has been sealed off.
A Coast Guard operation has got underway to transfer a group of 35 migrants from the small island of Gavdos, the southernmost Greek island located to the south of Crete, to Crete itself.
A Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip which was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians was hit overnight by an Israeli air strike, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, and Palestinian health officials said 18 people were killed.
SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has said that Stefanos Tzoumakas, one of his fellow contestants in the recent party leadership race, has put himself “outside of the party.” In a social media post, Kasselakis said he was “regretfully” referring Tzoumakas to the party’s “ethics committee for further action.”
The Hamas attack against Israel has upended the Middle East, and Egypt and its President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, like many others in the region, have been feeling the pressure.
Deputy Defense Minister Yiannis Kefaloyiannis signed the tender on Thursday for the first project aimed at expanding Greece’s naval facilities, starting with the upgrade of the Naval Station at Souda Bay.
Police in Athens detained a foreign national after he barged into the Greek Orthodox Church of Agios Panteleimonas shouting slogans about Allah and acting “erratically.”