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.
The Food For Thought Network (FFTN) will launch its 2026 theme, “The Evolution of Hellenism: Family and Identity in the Diaspora,” with a new program of intergenerational conversations.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, a government statement said.
It was late September in Hania and time for the defendant to address the judges and jury on the charge of murder brought against him. He started by apologizing for his actions, claiming he “went crazy” and pulled the trigger.
Faced with droughts and sharper competition, Greek rice farmers are tapping into a new revenue stream: selling their cheap, broken rice to wedding goers instead of discarding it or using it for animal feed.