Europe and the Balkans
Greece is the most powerful country in the Balkans. It has no reason to be caught up in the bluster and nationalist grandstanding of a bygone era that have reared their ugly heads in the region again.
PAOK wins the most dramatic Super League championship
PAOK has won the fourth championship in its history after beating Aris 2-1 away on Sunday.
Heat in Crete hits 38.6 C
Temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius (86F) were recorded at 108 weather stations in Greece Sunday, the national weather service says.
African dust augurs temperatures to match
Dust blowing in from the Sahara cast a pall over the springtime sky in Athens and many other parts of Greece, particularly in the south, over the weekend, heralding a spike in temperatures.
Alinejad: ‘Iranian women are wounded but unbowed to their oppressors’
“My dream is to witness an Iran liberated from the grip of the Islamic regime,” the Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad tells Kathimerini in an interview.
Equipping Special Forces with drones a top priority
Pretty soon, all Special Forces operators will have so-called “loitering munitions” in their backpacks. Ministry of Defense officials are at an advanced stage of talks with their US counterparts to procure Switchblade systems.
Fighting off the specter of barbarism
For more than two years, Doctors of the World Greece (MdM-Greece) have been working relentlessly in Ukraine to help rebuild hospitals and shelters, and provide medical, psychological and material support to locals forced to flee occupied territories amid mines and shelling and the sorrowful sound of sirens. “The destruction […]
Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating.
Police obtain crime gangs’ calls, chats
The Greek police has recently, and belatedly, gained access to the full trove of data from two, now defunct, communications networks used heavily by criminals due to their encrypted communications capabilities.
We need more modern buildings, says technical chamber chief
The president of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) is defending the new building code that notably allows for higher, bigger buildings under certain circumstances.