Home birth ends in tragedy for mother, child
A 34-year-old woman and her newborn baby were found dead on Wednesday inside their home in Patissia, central Athens.
A 34-year-old woman and her newborn baby were found dead on Wednesday inside their home in Patissia, central Athens.
The number of fires to break out in forest, farm or scrub land in Greece between Tuesday and Wednesday reached 24 after a blaze started shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon in Avramia, in Messinia, in the southwestern Peloponnese.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected to meet during the UN General Assembly in New York (September 22-26) as they attempt to overcome the stagnation in Greek-Turkish relations that has persisted for two and a half years.
Belgian composer Wim Mertens will return to Athens for two concerts at the Athens Conservatory (17-18 Vassileos Georgiou B).
Attica Regional Governor Nikos Hardalias visited the historic central Athens neighborhood of Mets on Wednesday to check on the progress of a project upgrading its indoor sports arena.
A 78-year-old man died on Wednesday after succumbing to injuries sustained in a fall into a water well at his home in Almiros, southwest of Volos, in eastern mainland Greece.
Archimandrite Melchisedek Ambelikakis, parish priest of Sternes on Crete, has publicly responded to media reports linking him to a high-profile criminal investigation involving the so-called Crete mafia, stressing that he was not involved in any illegal activity.
Greece has endured one of its harshest wildfire seasons in recent memory, with 47,393 hectares burned between January and August 2025, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) and analysis by the National Observatory of Athens/meteo.gr.
Police clashed with tourists early Wednesday outside a Mykonos burger restaurant in an incident captured on video.
Greek Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis defended the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection after Cyprus’ finance minister called the project “unsustainable.”