About 14 percent of the country’s land surface was covered in snow on Sunday, the National Observatory of Athens’ Meteo weather service has reported. Satellite data shows that that the area under snow during last week exceeds the average of the period from 2004 to 2022 and is the third most extensive since 2005 for…
Police have made a second arrest in relation to Monday’s deadly car chase in which a policeman lost his life in the western Athenian suburb of Nikea. The second arrest concerns a 17-year-old male, who is suspected of being an accomplice of the first suspect to be arrested, a 20-year-old male.
Greece is willing to send aid to the Gaza Strip through military means, as it did in November when it sent a C-130 with pharmaceutical and medical supplies to the territory through Egypt, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis has said.
Cyprus has disrupted an alleged Iranian plot to target Israeli businessmen with the arrest of two Iranian asylum-seekers who were in contact with another Iranian associated with the Revolutionary Guard, a Cypriot official has said.
Hungary will lift its objection to Bulgaria joining Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone after the Bulgarian parliament formally confirms its scrapping of an extra tax on Russian gas shipments, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
Eliminating the stigma associated with technical education is of the upmost importance, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said. Visiting Perama vocational high school near Piraeus, he said he was impressed by the quality of the work being done.
While there is growing interest on the part of potential employees to apply for local authority positions, when it comes to the time of appointment, it is estimated that one in two turn their backs on the public sector.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Tuesday as saying that positive developments on the US sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and on Canada’s arms embargo, would help Turkey’s parliament move toward ratifying Sweden’s NATO membership bid.
A former New Democracy prime minister has voted against a government amendment that would enable certain migrants to obtain a three-year residency and work permit. In voting “no” to the amendment, Antonis Samaras sided with the rightwing Hellenic Solution, Spartans and Niki MPs.
Importers of coffee to the European Union are starting to scale back purchases from small farmers in Africa and beyond as they prepare for a landmark EU law that will ban the sale of goods linked to the destruction of forests, a cause of climate change.