Greece’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday afternoon said it is “closely monitoring” the situation in Venezuela in a post on X, adding that the country’s embassy is in contact with the Greek community.
After the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flew him out of the country in an extraordinary nighttime operation accompanied by a series of strikes, the head of the Greek community in Caracas, Theodoros Maragellis, spoke to Kathimerini from his home in the Venezuelan capital, describing what he experienced.
The expansion of Greece’s metro networks in Athens and Thessaloniki appears to be facing delays, as funding constraints slow the development of new extensions, according to officials.
Delays in raw material deliveries have led to a decrease in industrial production in December.
The police’s organized crime division is wrapping up its investigations into three groups of people that have illegally obtained farm subsidies and is about to make arrests, Kathimerini understands.
A 36-year-old man was arrested on the southern Greek island of Crete after accidentally shooting and injuring his older brother with a shotgun, police said Saturday.
It has emerged that Turkey secured the procurement of 10 GE F110 engines from US-based GE Aerospace, the successor to General Electric. The engines are a critical component of Turkey’s first indigenous fighter jet, KAAN, which is being developed by state-owned Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).
A man has died in a house fire in the eastern Attica town of Rafina. A detachment of 15 firefighters and volunteers attended the scene and later recovered his body from the house.
After a month of protests, farmers appear unwilling to budge and could be ready to escalate their action. On Sunday, protesting farmers from across the country will hold their third meeting at Malgara, a highway interchange near the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest.
A fire that broke out shortly before midnight in a temporary accommodation apartment on the third floor of a building on Marni Street in central Athens was brought under partial control by firefighters.