Athlete among suspects held over young woman’s death in Kefalonia
A youth weightlifting champion is among three men arrested in connection with the death of a 19-year-old on the island of Kefalonia, authorities said.
ExxonMobil, Energean and Helleniq to sign drilling deal
US oil behemoth ExxonMobil, Energean and Greece’s biggest oil refiner Helleniq Energy will sign a contract on Wednesday with Stena Drilling to start exploratory drilling in a western Greek offshore block, the Energy Ministry said on Tuesday.
ATHEX: Strong start after Easter holidays
The Greek stock market returned on Tuesday to levels it had climbed to last Wednesday, before Thursday’s decline.
Ministry rejects BBC allegations on foreign border mercenaries
The Ministry of Citizen Protection has rejected a BBC report claiming that police in Greece have been recruiting migrants to violently push other migrants back across its land border with Turkey.
Two Greeks remanded after flag incident inside Hagia Sophia
Two Greek tourists – a man and a woman – have been remanded in custody in Istanbul after allegedly unfurling a Greek flag inside Hagia Sophia and recording the act on video, according to Turkish media reports.
Pierrakakis warns of prolonged global energy shock amid Strait of Hormuz tensions
Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has delivered a stark warning about the scale of the ongoing energy disruption triggered by the war in Iran, describing it as potentially the most severe energy crisis in modern history.
Police in Athens break migrant smuggling ring with own passport workshop
Authorities in Athens have broken a well-organized migrant smuggling ring that used Greece as an entry point to the European Union and had its own hi-tech workshop to churn out fake passports, police said Tuesday.
Drink driving campaign paying off, spot checks show
Just one in 200 motorists stopped in the Greater Athens region over the past five days was caught above the legal alcohol limit, police said Tuesday and pledged to persist with a months-long strict road safety campaign.
Three held over teen’s mystery death on Kefalonia
Three people were arrested Tuesday over the mystery death of a young woman on the western island of Kefalonia, police said.
Lesvos farmers disrupt ferry sailing amid foot-and-mouth epidemic
Farmers on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesvos, who are struggling to cope with a deadly livestock disease, on Tuesday prevented hundreds of travelers from boarding an outward-bound ferry to protest the government’s handling of the epidemic.