Cartoon (05/03/2024)
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All EFKA services in an app soon
The Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) is seeking to make a huge leap.
Prosecutor to probe Asimakopoulou’s alleged GDPR breach
The Athens prosecutor’s office got involved in the privacy-breach investigation of which European People’s Party MEP and ruling New Democracy official Anna-Michelle Assimakopoulou has been accused of.
Prosecutor to investigate Kasselakis’ US firm
The Athens prosecutor’s office has ordered an investigation into SYRIZA head Stefanos Kasselakis’ shipping business interests in the United States after documents revealed that he has owned a company abroad.
Omens not boding well after 2023 record heat
With extreme weather and climate change-related natural disasters, 2023 was the warmest year ever recorded since meteorological data started being systematically recorded. Although a documented forecast cannot be made, the likelihood that 2024 will be among the five to 10 warmest since the mid-19th century is heightened by the elevated temperatures in the first two…
Beleri: ‘It was a sham trial’
A mayor from Albania’s Greek minority who was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday for buying votes, described the judicial proceedings as a “sham trial.” “With a fake criminal record, no evidence, no other witnesses except one who was bribed by the police, with an ‘appointed’ judge, in a glass cage without communication…
Bear attacks a skier in North Macedonia as mild winters cut their hibernation short
A Danish skier was injured in a bear attack at a nature park in North Macedonia Tuesday, in an area where authorities say mild winters have led to a surge in the brown bear population.
Man arrested after attacking female driver with baton
A 45-year old driver was arrested on Tuesday in Argos, after he attacked a woman with a wooden baton during a conflict between drivers, police said.
US sanctions Intellexa, executives who targeted American journalists, government officials
The Treasury Department announced Tuesday it has sanctioned two people and a Greece-based commercial spyware company headed by a former Israeli military officer that developed, operated and distributed technology used to target U.S. government officials, journalists and policy experts. he sanctions target Intellexa Consortium, which the U.S. says has sold and distributed commercial spyware and…
Greece says Beleri’s conviction ‘heightens concerns’ over judicial objectivity
The conviction by an Albanian court of the elected mayor of Himare “heightens the concerns raised about the objectivity of the process,” Greece’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, after an ethnic Greek was sentenced to two years in prison for buying votes. The ministry said that Beleri’s presumption of innocence was jeopardized “due to external…