The head of the embattled Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula announced on Thursday that he has launched the process for his succession, indicating that he plans to step down.
Police in Athens are investigating the circumstances under which a baby was abandoned in a supermarket cart in the central district of Koukaki late on Wednesday night.
On the popular Ionian island of Zakynthos, sewage has become a symbol of unchecked tourism and official neglect.
A fuel smuggling network that was dismantled on Sunday by Greece’s Organized Crime Unit in cooperation with the Operational Coordination Center had connections to Romania, Poland, Bulgaria and Albania.
Thessaloniki-based Anatolia College has marked an important milestone in its 139-year history after a new venture with the UK’s Open University was granted an operating license by the Greek state.
Opposition PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis demanded snap elections on Wednesday, denouncing the conservative New Democracy government as corrupt, arrogant and out of touch with citizens.
The outperformance of the economy, the increase in inbound tourism, as well as soaring rents combined with increases in the price of electricity, are behind persistent inflation.
Athens Mayor Haris Doukas appears to be charting an independent opposition course that aspires to go beyond municipal politics ahead of PASOK’s upcoming party congress.
A 25-year-old woman was killed early Thursday in a car crash in Corinth, on the Kiato-Souli provincial road.
British Ambassador to Greece Matthew Lodge, and Consul Alexandra Gregory visited Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni to assess tourism relations between the two countries.