Flights to and from Iraklio Airport on Crete have been suspended after protesting farmers breached airport grounds and swarmed onto the apron area, forcing authorities to shut down operations.
Fifteen people arrested during Saturday’s march commemorating the 2008 police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos have been charged with multiple misdemeanors.
Tension flared on Monday outside Nikos Kazantzakis International Airport in Iraklio, Crete, as protesting farmers and livestock breeders attempted to block the main entrance.
A prosecutor on Monday called for the conviction of two men accused of murdering 54-year-old surveyor Panagiotis Stathis in the Athens suburb of Neo Psychiko in July 2024, saying the evidence against them was “unshakeable.”
Two men found alive among 17 dead bodies in a partially sunken migrant boat south of the island of Crete over the weekend told Greek authorities the vessel had been carrying a total of 34 people, and that 15 had fallen overboard and were missing, Greece’s coast guard said Monday.
Ian Lesser, the vice president and Brussels chief of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy and its scathing critique of Europe, which some are already calling the “mother of all wake-up calls” from Washington toward Europe.
The presence of so many former comrades of the now fractured left at the Pallas Theater for Alexis Tsipras’ official book presentation last week was bound to be uncomfortable.
The farmers’ blockades of highways, which are still spreading across Greece, began in Thessaly. This was no accident; this is a region with a heavy farming population and with plenty of grievances against the conservative government.
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines said on Monday it has signed an agreement to acquire the biggest Czech airline, Smartwings, along with its owner, Czech Airlines, from Prague City Air.
A police officer died Monday after being shot and seriously wounded during an early morning drug raid in Istanbul, Turkish officials said. Officer Emre Albayrak died of his wounds in a hospital. He was part of a special operations team carrying out the raid in the Cekmekoy district on Istanbul’s Asian side. “Our police officer…