A six-month-old bear cub died on Friday after being found with gunshot wounds near Kastoria, northern Greece. The severely injured animal was discovered by members of the Callisto environmental organization and rushed to a veterinary clinic, but succumbed shortly after arrival.
Four people are presumed dead and 11 others are still missing after a Liberian-flagged cargo ship sank in the Red Sea following an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a European Union naval mission has said.
Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis has criticized PASOK for abstaining from a parliamentary vote on the suspension of asylum applications, accusing the main opposition party of being in a state of “utter confusion.”
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met Friday in Athens with Meta’s Global Head of Safety, Antigone Davis, and other company officials for talks that centered on internet safety for children.
Columbia University’s Global Center in Athens hosted summer seminars that brought students into direct contact with the subjects of their classical, linguistic and cultural studies.
Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a 1995 massacre there of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men, which has been acknowledged as Europe’s only genocide after the Holocaust.
Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants have burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long insurgency against Turkey.
A 63-year-old US citizen, who was in custody after being accused of photographing a minor on a beach in the northwestern city of Preveza, jumped from the second floor of the local hospital where he was under guard, in an apparent suicide attempt.
A large fire broke out on Friday morning in the Sindos Industrial Zone, west of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, prompting an emergency alert to residents due to hazardous smoke.
The Culture Ministry is restoring the Basilica A complex, including its ancient baptistery, at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Philippi in northern Greece.