PM: Situation will gradually improve
Referring to the cost-of-living crisis, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the problem of high prices is an “ongoing battle” and that things will gradually improve.
My dear doctor
Every time I visit my doctor at the public hospital where he works, I feel ashamed. The computer on his desk is inferior to the laptop I carry with me, the air conditioning in his office is usually struggling to produce a coolish breeze and I have yet to understand how he, his associate, the…
Athens high school targeted in arson attack
A high school in western Athens was targeted in an arson attack early Thursday morning, police said.
Greece has talked to Saudi Arabia about stranded oil tanker, FM says
Greece’s foreign minister said on Thursday he had been in touch with his Saudi counterpart as part of discussions to avert any ecological disaster from a Greek flagged oil tanker stranded in the Red Sea after a Houthi militant attack last week.
Wet weather sweeping in over next three days
August in Greece is expected to end with lightening storms as a cold and unstable weather forecast is expected to affect most regions of the country until Saturday, according to an emergency bulletin issued by the national weather service, EMY, on Thursday.
Greek athletes in the opening ceremony of Paris Paralympics
Athletes of Greece take part in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France, on August 28, 2024.
Measures afoot to radically transform police force
The Citizen Protection Ministry is reportedly drafting a bill seeking the radical transformation of the Hellenic Police (ELAS).
Iran claims Yemen’s Houthi rebels will allow rescuers to salvage oil tanker ablaze in Red Sea
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to assist a Greek-flagged oil tanker that remains ablaze in the Red Sea “in consideration of humanitarian and environmental concerns,” Iran’s mission to the United Nations claimed late Wednesday.
Major operation under way to clean Kifissos riverbed
Work is under way to clean the underground portion of the Kifissos riverbed in Athens for the first time in at least 20 years.
Expert rejects major quake speculation as fake news
Experts are dismissing the recent onslaught of speculation of an imminent major earthquake in Greece in the media and elsewhere as nothing but scaremongering.