The lighting Sunday of what organizers billed as Greece’s largest Christmas tree, near the entrance to the Samaria Gorge on Crete, went viral, drew thousands of spectators and then sparked backlash and official action.
The Christmas holiday exodus from cities is continuing, with traffic conditions showing marked improvement after widespread disruption caused by farmers’ road blockades earlier in the week.
The Hellenic Meteorological Service (EMY) has updated its emergency weather bulletin, maintaining an orange warning for severe weather across much of the country.
Police in Thessaloniki have prepared a case file against six teenagers accused of gang-raping a 13-year-old girl over a period of three months.
Shops in cities across the country will remain open until 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, while most supermarket chain outlets will stay open later to accommodate last-minute Christmas shoppers.
State and political leaders have marked the approach of Christmas by listening to traditional carols and melodies from various regions of Greece and Pontus.
Twelve people suspected of belonging to a criminal group that sold drugs at a private school in the northern suburbs of Athens have been remanded in custody following their testimony before an investigating magistrate.
Explore Greece’s Christmas traditions, from sweet treats and carols to ancient folklore and sacred rituals.
A Greek woman is among the eight dead passengers of the private Dassault Falcon 50 jet carrying the Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, that crashed Tuesday shortly after take off in Turkey.
The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey’s capital Ankara, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognized government said, adding that four others were on the jet as well.