A 54-year-old from the northern city of Florina who was founded in possession of an extensive arsenal of military-grade firearms, ammunition and hand grenades last week has been remanded in custody pending trial. He told an investigating magistrate that he denied all the charges against him and claimed that his hobby involved collecting old weapons.
As the average tenant spends over a third of his or her monthly income to cover housing costs, renters’ unions, organizations which are common elsewhere in Europe, are starting to gain ground in Greece too.
The state’s proposal to place offshore wind farms off Crete has united the island’s hoteliers in support of the preservation of the natural and manmade landscape.
The leader of Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis has said that the group will further escalate if the Israeli attack on Gaza does not stop. The group fired naval missiles at two ships in the Red Sea on Tuesday, its military spokesman said, causing damage to Greek-owned Star Nasia and British-owned Morning Tide.
A former Thessaly regional governor, Kostas Agorastos, is to be prosecuted over charges of dereliction of duty and other misdemeanors in relation to works conducted at the site of the deadly Tempe train disaster, the region’s prosecutor’s office has announced.
Politician Eva Kaili, who is being investigated over corruption allegations dubbed Qatargate, could face legal repercussions if she speaks to the media about the scandal, Brussels-based news site POLITICO has reported.
A traffic policeman who became an Athenian icon for the cool and efficient manner with which he saw motorists in the capital’s northern suburbs through some of the most nightmarish traffic snarls of the late 1980s and through the 1990s has died, according to a social media post on Tuesday.
A second hospital death in a week is being attributed to a very invasive form of streptococcal disease that infects the respiratory tract.
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis met on Tuesday with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ new personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar.
The Greek-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged Star Nasia, managed by Star Bulk Carrier, was damaged by an explosion at 1115 GMT, a Greek shipping ministry official said, adding that its crew were not injured.