Serbia’s 96-85 win over South Sudan puts Greece in the quarterfinals
Greece’s basketball team has reached the quarterfinals at the Olympics as Serbia defeated South Sudan 96-85 Saturday night.
Back to the basics of a sick economy
So many more opportunities have gone down the drain again, this time from the Recovery and Resilience Fund, worth some €36 billion.
Woman from Kavala tells police she was raped, held captive
A 32-year-old woman has accused her partner of holding her prisoner, beating her and raping her. The woman, who is a Muslim from Kavala in northern Greece, was being treated at the General Hospital of Didymoteicho.
The pressing demographic decline
Greece is aging. It is a realization that keeps being mentioned more and more urgently and imperatively.
New tools, old habits
The citizens’ response to the new app that allows them to report zoning and environmental violations on beaches shows us how useful this kind of service can be.
Backfiring institutional transgressions
It is surely a coincidence that “the report on the wiretapping case came out one day before Parliament closed and two days before August, the laziest month of the year,” as Kathimerini reported recently.
Cattle plague may lead to increased cheese prices
Amid an ongoing cattle plague with the number of farm units registering positive cases of rinderpest increasing by the day, Minister of Rural Development and Food Kostas Tsiaras is not ruling out the possibility of price hikes, especially regarding popular cheeses, such as feta and graviera.
Alpha sets higher goals for dividend
Announcing increased profitability for the first half of the year Friday, Alpha Bank also reported the first dividend to shareholders since 2007, as well as plans to increase the size of the dividend as a percentage of profits in subsequent years.
26 migrants rescued off Symi, one man arrested for trafficking
A 20-year-old male was arrested by the Symi Port Authority on Saturday for allegedly trafficking migrants into Greece.
Cyprus to help people evacuate from the Middle East if Israel-Hamas war expands
Cyprus’ foreign minister says authorities are in touch with the diplomatic missions of nations that may opt to evacuate their citizens through the east Mediterranean island nation if the Israeli-Hamas war expands to engulf neighboring countries.