Coast Guard officer convicted of migrant-smuggling
A court on the southeastern island of Rhodes has convicted a Greek Coast Guard officer of smuggling migrants and sentenced him to 24.5 years in prison.
Monk, police impersonator held for fraud
A fake monk, who also appears to have occasionally posed as a policeman, has been arrested in northern Greece for allegedly fundraising on behalf of a fictitious monastery, police said Tuesday.
Fuel and Power Pass to return as energy prices soar
As energy rates soar and the Middle East crisis shows no signs of abating, the Greek government is facing a familiar, yet particularly adverse scenario: The need to prevent a new wave of inflation from hitting households and businesses.
ATHEX: Mood swings, stocks bounce back
Banks led a spectacular recovery of local stocks on Tuesday.
From Tehran to Ankara: A new balance of power in the postwar Middle East
The current war with Iran represents a pivotal moment in the history of the Middle East, plunging the region into unprecedented uncertainty and potentially leading to prolonged instability in an already volatile region.
Film director Giorgos Panousopoulos dies aged 84
Director and screenwriter Giorgos Panousopoulos, known for films including “Neighbors” and “Testosterone,” died Tuesday aged 84.
Ministry says overworked staff accidentally displayed addresses in group email
The Foreign Ministry conceded Tuesday that it accidentally included the personal email addresses of hundreds of members of the public in an email to Greeks seeking repatriation from the Gulf, attributing the oversight to its staff’s exhausting workload.
Metal thieves start targeting electric vehicle charging stations
Experts suspect that an incident where two people in the northern Athens suburb of Maroussi were electrocuted while attempting to cut a cable from an electric vehicle charging station may signal the emergence in Greece of a type of theft already seen abroad.
Two held for snatching bags from cars driven by women
Two men have been arrested for allegedly preying on female car drivers in Athens, stealing their handbags from moving or stopped vehicles and escaping on a motorcycle, police said Tuesday.
‘Maybe we die together’: Voices at the Iran-Turkey mountain crossing
At a remote mountain pass in eastern Turkey, travelers from Iran step across the threshold with a mix of fear, exhaustion and relief – arriving after a week marked by war, long journeys by train or car, communications blackouts and borrowed phones.