Patra Coroner’s Service to reopen on Monday
The Patra Coroner’s Service, which was shut down on July 10 over its alleged lapses in investigating a high-profile child murder case, is set to resume operations this coming Monday.
Toronto’s Greek Summer Festival draws thousands of visitors
The Greek community of Toronto came together once again in a powerful show of unity for the Greek Summer Festival on July 4-6, drawing over 6,000 visitors.
Tourism receipts fall despite visitor surge
Greece’s tourism industry is experiencing a paradox of more visitors spending less money, with real tourism revenues declining 1.6% compared to 2019 levels when adjusted for inflation, according to a new Eurobank study.
Suspects in Athens killing of Berkeley University professor face prosecutor
The ex-wife of the Polish professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who was gunned down execution-style in the northern Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi earlier this month, appeared before a prosecutor on Thursday morning, along with four suspected accomplices.
Greece’s housing crisis and the decline of home ownership
Nikos Roussanoglou, a journalist at Kathimerini covering the economy and the housing market, joins Thanos Davelis to break down the latest statistics showing a decline in home ownership in Greece amid rising costs across the housing market, and look at what these trends mean for Greeks.
PASOK raps ND MP over sexist comment
PASOK on Thursday demanded a response from ruling New Democracy over a sexist comment made by one of its MPs to a member of the center-left opposition on live television.
Opposition condemns House panel on ex-minister’s Tempe train crash role
Opposition parties PASOK, SYRIZA and New Left walked out of a meeting of the parliamentary committee tasked with investigating former transport minister Kostas Karamanlis in connection with the Tempe rail tragedy and determining whether to lift his immunity from criminal prosecution.
Vegetation loss from Greek wildfires sharply raised soil temperature, report says
The soil surface temperature in areas around Greek capital Athens rose in some places by as much as 10 degrees Celsius since July 2024 after big fires destroyed vegetation, research released on Wednesday by the Athens National Observatory said.
Three arrested over massive 2023 cocaine haul from cargo ship
Two-and-a-half years after Spanish authorities discovered 4.5 tons of cocaine hidden on a Greek-owned cargo ship, three key suspects were arrested in Greece this week.