The owner of a hotel in Florina, northern Greece, was being questioned by a prosecutor on Monday after 14 guests at his facility were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty heating system.
Ayla Jean Yackley, an Istanbul-based journalist covering Turkey with stories in The Financial Times, Politico, and other major outlets, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the latest deadly attack in Ankara and Turkey’s retaliation against Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria, and look into the reported efforts to end the conflict between the Turkish army and…
Metro and tram services in Athens and Piraeus have been modified on Monday to facilitate the parades in the two cities to mark the October 28 national holiday of “Ochi Day.”
The families of the 57 victims of last year’s railway disaster in Tempe, central Greece, are no closer to getting any closure 19 months after a freight train collided head-on with a passenger train carrying mainly university students heading back home from a long weekend.
Greece on Monday celebrates the national holiday of “Ochi Day,” marking the country’s entry into World War II after it refused to capitulate to an ultimatum from Italy’s Benito Mussolini and accept the Axis occupation, on October 28, 1940.
A hotel in Florina, northern Greece, where 14 guests had to be hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning on Sunday had been cited for licensing violations less than 10 days earlier, the Culture Ministry confirmed on Monday.
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.