Domestic violence reports in Greece rose 36% over the past year, with arrests up 64%, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis announced Thursday during a visit to the northern city of Thessaloniki.
The moment he arrived home to Syria from Turkey, Ahmed al-Kassem held his sister in a tight embrace, tears streaming down their faces. They hadn’t seen each other in more than a decade and now were reunited only days after the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Tourism revenue in 2024 is projected to reach €22 billion, marking a milestone year for the sector, Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni noted Thursday.
Police in Kalamata are questing a 35-year-old man in relation to a murder of a 52-year-old man in a hotel in the city.
“We at City are tired. Everyone we know is tired. Exhaustion has become one of the fundamental features of urban life.” This provocative introduction opens the article “Tired City: On the Politics of Urban Exhaustion.”
The Ersi Gallery (8 Kleomenous, ersi.gr) presents “Lila De Nobili – Yannis Tsarouchis: A Fruitful Dialogue,” an exhibition exploring the artistic connection between the two renowned figures.
Greek online shopping platform Skroutz has obtained a temporary injunction in an Athens court against Meta Platforms over the misuse of its trademark and logo in bogus advertisements on its Facebook and Instagram sites.
The Environment Ministry has introduced an amendment designed to override a ruling by the country’s highest administrative court regarding a controversial provision in the New Building Code (NOK) allowing developers to add extra height to buildings in exchange for meeting certain eco-friendly standards.
PASOK President Nikos Androulakis urged the Greek government to prevent a Turkish-Syrian EEZ agreement following the Libyan model, in his statement during the pre-summit proceedings of the European Socialists in Brussels on Thursday.
The bi-communal body responsible for establishing the fate of Greek and Turkish Cypriots who went missing during the inter-communal fighting of 1963 to 1964 and the events of 1974, managed to identify the remains of 11 individuals in 2024.