Greek Parliament will elect the new president in the fourth and last round of voting on Wednesday, with the candidate of the ruling Conservatives expected to secure the reduced required majority of 151 lawmakers.
Akis Tselentis, a seismology professor and former director of Athens Geodynamic Institute, said on Tuesday he had submitted his resignation to the Secretary General of Civil Protection, citing government intervention in the work of a scientific community tasked with monitoring the spike in seismic activity near Santorini in the past few weeks.
“Are you Greek?” Three simple words – just two in Greek – that I never expected to hear in Adre, a remote eastern Chadian town on the border with Sudan, now the epicenter of the Sudanese refugee crisis.
As the release of findings on the deadly Tempe train crash approaches, political debates are intensifying.
More than 10 underwater earthquakes with a magnitude of at least 4.0 have struck between the Cycladic islands of Santorini and Amorgos since Tuesday morning, raising concerns among Greek scientists about the development of the seismic activity in the area.
Greek Police have identified the driver of the luxury vehicle that hit and lightly injured a woman in central Athens on Sunday afternoon.
The consequences of the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on all steel and aluminum imports from the US will be limited, but not negligible.
At least five more earthquakes were recorded on Tuesday morning in the sea area between the Cycladic islands of Santorini and Amorgos, as the wave of tremors that have struck the popular tourist islands continued for the 17th day.
Former socialist defense minister Yiannos Papantoniou announced on Tuesday that he was suffering from an aggressive type of prostate cancer.