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.
Six people detained for migrant-smuggling in northern Greece
Six people have been arrested in two separate cases for allegedly smuggling migrants who crossed illegally into Greece from Turkey on their way on to Europe’s prosperous heartland, police said Tuesday.
Antetokounmpo named among first European Order of Merit laureates
Greek basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo has been named among the first laureates of the newly established European Order of Merit.
How tourism will fare amid Mideast turbulence
Greek tourism faces a whole new level of uncertainty created by the ongoing conflict in Iran and beyond, though experts agree that how damaging it will or will not be to the upcoming season depends on its duration, severity and scope.
Grenade suspect remanded in custody after threat outside Athens police HQ
The 48-year-old man who police said threatened to blow himself up outside Athens Police Headquarters (GADA) on Friday evening has been remanded in custody after briefly testifying before an investigating magistrate.
Dozens of migrants picked up from boat south of Crete
A group of 57 people has been rescued from a vessel in distress off Crete, authorities said Tuesday, as migrants continue to risk the long and dangerous journey from north Africa to the southern Greek island in small boats.