South Melbourne FC enters Oceania’s first ever pro soccer league
“Hellas Melbourne” won last month the title at the second tier of Australian soccer, the newly launched Australian Championship, just below the A-League.
Varoufakis handed police summons over past drug use remarks
MeRA25 leader and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has confirmed that he has been summoned to police headquarters in Athens for questioning over remarks about past drug use made during a recent podcast appearance.
Greek rice growers fear Mercosur deal will price them out of business
Rice growers in northern Greece had braced for a tough 2026 season as competition from non-EU exporters heated up but many of them now worry that a controversial free trade deal between the European Union and South America’s biggest Mercosur economies might put them out of business for good.
Plea deals mark first in subsidies scam
Seven defendants in the Greek agricultural subsidy fraud case received reduced sentences on Thursday after returning €165,000 and admitting guilt through plea bargaining agreements.
Turkey plans to sign 2000 MW solar power plant deal in Gulf in February, energy minister says
Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Friday that President Tayyip Erdogan may make a trip to the Gulf in February and that Turkey aimed to sign there a deal on an international 2,000 MW solar project. Bayraktar was speaking in an interview with Turkish state broadcaster TRT Haber. [Reuters]
This tourist season will begin as early as March
The number of seats scheduled by airlines for Greece increased by 10% for the first quarter.
Is 2026 the year of uncertainty?
This week, we kick off with a look ahead at 2026, featuring interviews with Kathimerini Executive Editor Alexis Papachelas, Council on Foreign Relations’ Steven Cook on the protests in Iran, and analysis from Lena Argiri, Nektaria Stamouli, and Loukas Kozonis in our “Meet the Press” segment.
Five arrested in Attica armed robbery ring
Authorities arrested five alleged members of a criminal organization responsible for gas station and mini market robberies in Attica during a targeted operation on Thursday.
Livestock crisis deepens
Livestock producers are facing heavy losses as sheep and goat pox continues to spread nationwide.
For a school that’s a beacon, not a mirror
From his career ‘takeoff’ in America with an aircraft timeshare firm to his contribution to his alma mater, Athens College.