Police arrested a man reportedly carrying three grenades outside Athens Police Headquarters (GADA) on Friday evening following a tense standoff that ended with a surprise operation by officers.
Greek industry’s pillars are food, aluminum, chemicals and, in recent years, pharmaceuticals, with their contribution to total sales of industrial products increasing compared to that of petroleum products.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a telephone conversation on Friday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, discussing, according to government sources, latest developments in Iran, Lebanon, and the wider Middle East.
The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics will officially open later Friday amid the tensions of war in the Middle East and with some countries intending to boycott the opening ceremony because of the return of the Russian flag to the global sports stage.
Hollywood actor Brad Pitt arrived at Athens City Hall on Friday afternoon for the filming of the upcoming film “The Riders,” prompting the temporary closure of Athinas Street shortly after 4 pm.
As the war against Iran enters its second week, the government in Tehran remains in place while the economic cost for the United States and Israel rises, prompting US President Donald Trump to consider options short of deploying large ground forces.
Inflation is the new normal, as those pressures are no longer temporary but permanent.
A resident of Thessaloniki was fined €150 for throwing a cardboard box into a recycling bin without flattening it, under cleanliness rules enforced by municipalities across Greece.
Authorities in northern Greece have arrested two suspects on drug smuggling charges after police found more than half a kilogram of heroin hidden inside a cereal box during a roadside check.
A drone strike this week on a British air base in Cyprus has renewed calls for an end to British military presence on the Mediterranean island as many fear being dragged into the wider Iran conflict.