Two vessels from the global environmental protection group Sea Shepherd, joining forces with local groups, have reported removing over 6,500 traps and 52,000 meters of rope from the Thracian Sea area in Greece’s northeast, freeing 571 trapped octopuses.
Greece is in talks with Israel to develop a 2 billion euro ($2.11 billion) anti-aircraft and missile defense dome, part of a wider push to modernize its armed forces.
There was a time when the conversation in Greece during US elections was chiefly about which of the candidates was a better philhellene.
Antonios Papanikolaou, the priest at the center of an abuse scandal in the Kivotos tou Kosmou (Ark of the World) children’s charity he founded in 1998, was handed a four-year and three month suspended prison sentence for his role in the case.
Police across Europe arrested 43 people and seized 520 million euros ($547 million) in a European investigation into a criminal conspiracy to evade VAT through money laundering and mafia activity, the European public prosecutors’ office (EPPO) and Italian police said on Thursday.
Two former protected witnesses in the long-running Novartis case involving accusations that the Swiss pharmaceutical giant paid bribes to public officials to increase its market share in Greece have been summoned to testify as suspected offenders.
Applications are now open for unemployed individuals interested in participating in the green skills training program organized by the Public Employment Service (DYPA).
Turkey has announced events to mark the “41st anniversary of the establishment of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).”