A severe hail storm ripped up trees and roofs in Croatia on Tuesday, while an empty tourist boat sank when it was hit by a ferry that broke its moorings in the Adriatic Sea port of Split.
Militant fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) will begin handing over weapons in groups in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday as part of a peace process with Turkey, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported on Tuesday.
The Municipality of Athens has announced that due to the extremely high temperatures, Lycabettus Hill will remain closed to all activities on Wednesday.
Cretan authorities are struggling to accommodate the rapidly increasing number of migrants, with nearly 2,000 people arriving on the island over the past two days.
A 20-day salary suspension has been imposed by the management of Greece’s farm subsidy agency, OPEKEPE, on Paraskevi Tycheropoulou, a special scientific advisor to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and a key witness in the rural subsidy scandal involving alleged misuse of EU agricultural funds.
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The illegal farm subsidy story is yet another revelation of the chronic dysfunctions of our political system and state.
Authorities closed the Acropolis for several hours Tuesday due to high temperatures as work restrictions remained in effect in other parts of Greece.
A 34-year-old man has been fined €50,000 by authorities in Thessaloniki after found to have deliberately killed a kitten last month.
There exists a striking asymmetry in the study of public opinion concerning German-Greek relations. While we have fairly precise data on how Greeks have viewed Germany over the past 20 years, until very recently, virtually nothing was known about how Germans perceive Greece and the Greek people.