Aegina island water crisis enters second month
Residents of Aegina island have been using brackish groundwater since December 20 after the underwater pipeline connecting them to Athens’ water supply failed for the third time since 2022.
Peace in the Middle East? From Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ to Syria’s Kurds
Thanos Davelis is joined by experts Aaron David Miller, Nadine Maenza, Sinan Ciddi, and Michael Rubin as we try to make sense of developments in the Middle East – a region of particular importance to Greece and Cyprus. We dig into President Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the US abandonment of Syria’s Kurds, Iran, and more.
Seven victims of Romania minivan crash to be buried in northern Greece
The funerals of the seven PAOK soccer fans killed in this week’s road accident in Romania will be held Friday and Saturday in northern Greece.
Olympic organizers invoke an ancient pledge to call for the suspension of all wars
If the rules of ancient Greece were observed today, drone and missile fire over Ukraine would stop on Friday as guns fall silent in the Olympic tradition.
430,000-year-old wooden tools are the oldest ever found
Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived there, two new studies indicate, pushing back the established time for such activity.
Investigators seek cause of cracks in gas pipes that led to Trikala factory blast
Fire service experts investigating the explosion at a biscuit factory near Trikala that killed five workers are trying to ascertain what caused underground pipes carrying flammable gas to the factory ovens to crack, leading to the blast.
Price of poor building maintenance
Building management problems could slash the value of an apartment by as much as 20%.
Tsipras initiative seeks common ground for center-left
The Alexis Tsipras Institute, the policy think tank founded by Greece’s former leftist prime minister, has announced the creation of a working group to draft a common policy text aimed at uniting social democracy, the radical left and the Greens.
Larnaca readies for big projects
Larnaca is gearing up for a busy and expensive year ahead.
Power network operator faces lawsuits for ‘electricity theft’ fines
Power network operator DEDDIE is about to be hit with class-action lawsuits filed by consumer watchdog INKA on behalf of thousands of customers claiming to have been wrongfully fined for electricity theft.