Electric buses have arrived, but not their chargers
The first 140 electric buses from Chinese company Yutong arrived in Athens last weekend.
Request for VAR renewal
Greek soccer authorities have requested a meeting with Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou and Deputy Sports Minister Yiannis Vroutsis for the renewal of the contract for video assistant referee (VAR) technology, the officiating system assisting on-field referees in a soccer match, which expires in September. The request came after the executive committee of the Hellenic…
Storms cause problems in Pieria, northern Greece
Heavy storms caused floods in many parts of northern Greece on Monday and into the early hours of Tuesday, but particularly in the region of Pieria, where the mayor of one of the hardest-hit municipalities said that the emergency messaging system was out of order.
Trump’s judicial testing of America
Donald Trump is the first former president of the United States to face criminal charges – 91 of them, to be precise, in four cases.
Greek authorities rescue 100 migrants found in vessel off southern mainland
Greek authorities on Monday rescued 100 migrants found on a smuggling vessel in distress off the country’s southern mainland, officials said.
Interior Ministry to launch internal inquiry into personal data leak
The Ministry of the Interior is planning to carry out an internal inquiry to ascertain whether there has been a breach of privacy laws that allowed a candidate for the ruling conservative party in the upcoming European parliamentary elections to send hundreds of Greeks abroad campaign material to their private email accounts.
Metapolitefsi divides generations
The remarkable (if not yawning) chasm between the generation that experienced the entire cycle of Greece’s return to democracy and younger age groups born into the cycle of the so-called Metapolitefsi has been vividly illustrated by a poll commissioned by Kathimerini.
Stournaras: Bank of Greece prevented Grexit in 2015
If the Bank of Greece did not operate under the protection of the institutional framework of independence, after what happened in 2015, the country would have perhaps left the eurozone, Bank of Greece (BoG) Governor Yannis Stournaras said on Saturday.
Consumer app being upgraded to compare supermarket prices
The Development Ministry is seeking to assign the role of “Big Brother” for 15,000 product codes to the e-katanalotis market monitoring platform.
Father buries son at sea after a migrant boat went adrift for days, Cyprus police say
Cyprus police say a Syrian man admitted to burying one of his four children at sea after the 6-year-old died aboard a boat loaded with migrants that had gone adrift for many days without food or water.