Greece’s “Oikothen” home care program is revolutionizing cancer treatment, offering patients comfort and dignity. Launched in June 2023 by the Agios Savvas Hospital in Athens, the initiative delivers at-home therapies to patients who previously endured exhausting hospital visits.
At the junction of Vryoulon and Ymittou streets in the Athens suburb of Kaisariani, there is a row of refugee apartment buildings from the interwar period.
At that time, the children of the Prosfygika, despite living so close to the city center, grew up almost as if they were in the countryside, recalls Stefanos, who was born in one of the apartment buildings overlooking the park and spent his childhood there in the 1980s.
In the Mavri Petra (Black Stone) area of northern Evros, near Greece’s border with Bulgaria, two wind farms have been approved for construction.
Ιn a chilling confession, a 39-year-old man from the Ambelokipi district of Athens told authorities he murdered his 34-year-old wife after discovering she was allegedly planning to leave him.
Newly elected SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos, in his inaugural speech to the party’s central committee on Saturday, criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative government and challenged its claims of improving living conditions for Greek citizens.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, based in Istanbul, has once again proposed the idea of celebrating Easter on the same day for both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.
Last summer, freelance professionals took a first step toward challenging the Greek state over the new presumed income system by filing appeals with the Dispute Resolution Directorate (DED), citing constitutional objections to the procedure. However, these appeals were inevitably rejected, as DED is not empowered to assess the constitutionality of laws.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe elected former Turkish Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioglu on Friday as its new secretary general, a Turkish diplomatic source said, filling a position that had been vacant since September.
Kostas Georgousopoulos, the esteemed theater critic, translator, and writer, widely recognized by his pseudonym K.C. Myris, has passed away at the age of 87.