The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) issued a joint statement on Friday calling for “urgent and decisive action to prevent further deaths at sea following the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean, the worst in several years,” the organizations pointed out.
Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas held a cabinet meeting on Friday to discuss the rights of the survivors of the deadly migrant shipwreck, state-run news agency AMNA reported.
Recently in the United States the case of a lawyer captured public attention, as he based his defense line on previous cases which, however, had not occurred. The lawyer admitted to receiving his references to these “nonexistent” cases through the use of artificial intelligence. This incident, along with others, alarmed the […]
The Federation of Hellenic Associations of Travel & Tourist Agencies has welcomed measures announced by the Municipality of Athens regarding the effort to decongest the center of Athens by regulating the movement of tourist buses on main roads.
“The Eurogroup has confidence in us and the Greek economy shows resilience,” caretaker government Finance Minister Thodoros Pelagidis said in Luxembourg on Thursday, commenting on the European Commission’s post-program surveillance report on Greece. “Now is the time to go even further with the economic changes, which must be more thoroughly explained to the Greek people…
“The company under the name “Lavrion Port Authority S.A.” (OLL S.A.) has the exclusive right to use and exploit the land plots, buildings and facilities of the Port of Lavrion, through a Concession Agreement with the Greek State with a duration of 60 years from its entry into effect (expiring in 2062). The main activities…
A Syrian teenager who survived a shipwreck that killed at least 78 people was emotionally reunited with his elder brother on Friday, but there was no news for other relatives gathering in the southern Greek city of Kalamata to search for loved ones.
Greece needs to immediately upgrade its infrastructure, as well as the proper management of individual destinations of Greece, the new president of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), Giannis Paraschis, said during the presentation of Kathimerini’s Reimagine Tourism in Greece initiative on Wednesday.
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Greek police said on Friday it was searching for a 27-year-old woman who went missing on the island of Kos, in the Dodecanese, on Monday night.