Clashes erupt as farmers try to block Crete airport entrance
Tension flared on Monday outside Nikos Kazantzakis International Airport in Iraklio, Crete, as protesting farmers and livestock breeders attempted to block the main entrance.
Athens prosecutor seeks conviction in surveyor’s murder trial
A prosecutor on Monday called for the conviction of two men accused of murdering 54-year-old surveyor Panagiotis Stathis in the Athens suburb of Neo Psychiko in July 2024, saying the evidence against them was “unshakeable.”
2 survivors found among 17 bodies on a migrant boat south of Crete say 15 others are missing
Two men found alive among 17 dead bodies in a partially sunken migrant boat south of the island of Crete over the weekend told Greek authorities the vessel had been carrying a total of 34 people, and that 15 had fallen overboard and were missing, Greece’s coast guard said Monday.
The mother of all wake-up calls from Washington to Europe?
Ian Lesser, the vice president and Brussels chief of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy and its scathing critique of Europe, which some are already calling the “mother of all wake-up calls” from Washington toward Europe.
The day after a night in the cheap seats
The presence of so many former comrades of the now fractured left at the Pallas Theater for Alexis Tsipras’ official book presentation last week was bound to be uncomfortable.
Farm protests may end, but government woes won’t
The farmers’ blockades of highways, which are still spreading across Greece, began in Thessaly. This was no accident; this is a region with a heavy farming population and with plenty of grievances against the conservative government.
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines acquires biggest Czech airline, Smartwings, in a deal worth $180 million
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines said on Monday it has signed an agreement to acquire the biggest Czech airline, Smartwings, along with its owner, Czech Airlines, from Prague City Air.
Turkish police officer dies from gunshot wounds suffered in Istanbul drug raid
A police officer died Monday after being shot and seriously wounded during an early morning drug raid in Istanbul, Turkish officials said. Officer Emre Albayrak died of his wounds in a hospital. He was part of a special operations team carrying out the raid in the Cekmekoy district on Istanbul’s Asian side. “Our police officer…
Korydallos prison’s psychiatric clinic joins ESY
The Health Ministry announced the integration of the psychiatric ward operating inside Korydallos Prison – Greece’s largest penitentiary – into the National Health System (ESY) and the national mental health network, in an effort to improve the psychiatric care of inmates.
The poet who collected fragments of a city
In 1994, poet Dinos Christianopoulos noted of a handful of ancient sherds a friend had given him: “Except for one, they are all black-glazed and must belong to the Classical period.”