Elderly couple evacuated from blazing apartment
Emergency crews successfully evacuated an elderly Thessaloniki couple after a fire broke out in their second-floor apartment Sunday.
Speaker mulls hard speech limits at parliament committees
Parliament speaker Nikitas Kaklamanis plans to impose hard speech limits at parliamentary committee meetings broadcast live, he said in an interview Sunday.
Presents under the tree
Our paths had never crossed before, even though we had lived in the same neighborhood for who knows how long. The suburbs are nice, but they have this thing.
This was Trump’s year. What about 2026?
Without a doubt, 2025 was Trump’s year – and confirmation that History may be the sum of many contemporaneous developments but some individuals play a crucial role.
The three shots that started a cycle of bloodshed
The calendar read December 23, 1975. The mountains surrounding Athens were covered in snow and the Greek capital was decorated for the holidays.
Vulnerable debtors getting a ‘second chance’
Private and public investments will maintain high economic growth in Greece after the end of 2026, Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis told Kathimerini, responding to one of the most crucial questions about the economy.
Strong winds topple trees, prompt warnings in Thessaloniki
Strong northerly winds battered Thessaloniki on Sunday, reaching force 6 on the Beaufort scale and expected to intensify to force 7 by evening, according to the Hellenic National Meteorological Service.
Man stabs wife, then jumps to death in central Athens
A man stabbed and seriously wounded his wife before taking his own life Sunday afternoon in the Gyzi neighborhood of central Athens.
Man killed as car plunges down hillside in western Crete
A man was killed Sunday afternoon near the village of Sembronas in western Crete when the car he was driving veered off the road and plunged down a hillside.
Greece tackles tax evasion properly at last
Greece now boasts the largest annual reduction in VAT revenue losses in the European Union.