A coast guard officer was pulled unconscious from the sea at the harbor of Paralio Astros in the eastern Peloponnese on Wednesday after falling into the water while securing boats against gale-force winds, according to state broadcaster ERT.
Close to 40,000 applications have been submitted, and more than a quarter are still pending.
The recent Russian barbs directed at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, beyond their immediate relevance, point to something deeper: They reveal how easily religion can be transformed into a substitute for strategy and a tool of war.
The political debate in Greece is determined, on a monthly basis, by a graph: the one that captures the influence of political parties. It sounds methodologically logical. However, it now has a weak point: The strongest “party” is absent from that graph, which is the percentage of abstention.
A 16-year-old boy held in custody for the fatal beating of a 17-year-old in Serres, northern Greece, over the weekend, was, in the lead-up, assaulted by three fellow inmates during an incident that began over a minor dispute, authorities said.
It was the end of 2008. I don’t know what brought me to seek out former princess Irene, but yes, I had moved heaven and earth. I even tried to ambush her on Mavili Square, because I had learned that she stayed there when she visited from Spain.
A wave of severe weather affecting Greece since early Wednesday is expected to persist until Thursday afternoon, bringing heavy rain, thunderstorms, snowfall and gale-force winds.
The number of people registered as unemployed with the Public Employment Service (DYPA) fell to 915,889 in December 2025, marking a decline of 6.3%, compared with December 2024.
Snow, gale-force winds and rainstorms afflicted much of Greece Wednesday, with transport, education and public services disrupted as authorities pre-emptively closed schools and advised civil servants to work from home.
Police have broken a criminal ring operating petrol stations in various parts of the country that routinely overcharged motorists using specially-developed software, illegally netting an estimated €5 million a year, authorities said Wednesday.