In November 1973, Norman Oliver ran for New York mayor on the Socialist Workers’ Party ticket. And he got just 2,282 votes, or 0.13% of the total. Fifty years later, another socialist, Zohran Mamdani, was elected mayor of the global capitalist metropolis.
Heavy rainfall battered the popular Aegean island of Skiathos on Wednesday, causing widespread flooding and serious traffic disruptions.
A Thessaloniki court has sentenced a 46-year-old man to life imprisonment plus an additional 12 years for the murder of his estranged partner, whom he fatally stabbed after accusing her of having an affair with her own son.
Taxis in Athens will return to normal service from 6 a.m. on Thursday, following the decision by the city’s taxi drivers’ union, SATA, to call off the second day of a 48-hour strike.
The brother-in-law of the 39-year-old man who was killed during the deadly shootout between rival families in Vorizia, Crete, on Saturday, which left two people dead and four others injured, was arrested on Wednesday.
Despite strict measures, sheep and goat pox cases continue to rise in Greece, with 403,925 animals culled between August 2024, when the first case appeared, and October 2025. Infections have been confirmed at 2,033 farms nationwide, which cannot be restocked until the disease is eradicated.
A fur association in the northern Greek city of Kastoria is considering inviting US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to visit the city during next spring’s 51st Fur Fair, local media reported.
Henri Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Cohen chair in international relations at Lehigh University, and Thanos Davelis to take a closer look at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions in a post-war Gaza.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Athens in November to meet with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Foreign Ministry said.
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey had entered a “new phase” in efforts to end Kurdish militant violence and signaled he was open to the idea of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan addressing lawmakers.