Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis recently stated that the number of pupils who have been suspended for using a cellphone at school after they were banned at the start of the year had surpassed 6,000. This is just a fraction of the student population, which tells us that the measure is working so far. The vast…
PAOK, AEK and Olympiakos all lost this weekend in the Super League, with Aris going alone on top.
The Half Note jazz club (17 Trivonianou) will be hosting the renowned jazz organist Raphael Wressnig, along with his Soul Gift Band, for a short residency from November 8-11
For lazy people, inertia is paradise. Antonis Samaras, the former conservative prime minister, is not lazy. His strenuous but ultimately unfruitful effort to pull Greece out of the crisis between 2012 and 2015 is proof of that.
In August 2017, I met him in an apartment in a central area of Athens. For security reasons, his name could not be revealed, nor could his face be shown. The 25-year-old E. was the first Turkish citizen and supporter of the Gulen movement to be officially granted political asylum in Greece after the failed…
Swedish doom-metal pioneers Candlemass will return to Greece this November for a performance at Fuzz Club in Tavros (1 Patriarchou Ioakim, fuzzclub.gr), following their standout set at last year’s AthensRocks festival
A criminal investigation into suspected embezzlement and money laundering has been launched against two high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church in Greece and five nightclub owners in the Peloponnese.
Eight minors were transported to the hospital early Sunday morning after consuming alcohol at a nightclub in Athens.
Two traffic accidents in Athens left two people dead in the past 48 hours.
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides is expected to meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.