Several island municipalities have turned to the Interior Ministry for funding to address acute housing shortages for teachers, doctors and other public servants, following a similar initiative launched by the Municipality of Agios Vasilios in Rethymno, Crete.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stressed the need for talks to resolve current regional tensions in a call with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi on Wednesday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said.
two tractors belonging to farmers from the Nikaia blockade near Larissa in central Greece who attended Tuesday’s meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion, reports said Wednesday.
Greek-American actor Eleanna Fin (born Eleanna Finokalioti), raised between the islands of Crete and Rhodes and now based in New York, will appear in the lead role of Little Short Sally in the new Off-Broadway musical “Always Young,” presented at Theater for the New City from January 15 to February 1.
The daily limit for money transfers between individuals through IRIS Person to Person (P2P) has doubled to 1,000 euros, and payments to freelancers and small businesses via IRIS Person to Professionals (P2Pro) have also risen to 1,000 euros per day. Monthly limits for P2P transfers remain at 5,000 euros.
Maria Karystianou announced late Tuesday that she has resigned from the board of the association representing families of victims of the Tempe rail disaster, stepping down from a body she had chaired until recently amid growing internal divisions.
Former Cypriot president George Vassiliou, a successful businessman who helped to energize his divided island’s economy and set it on the road to European Union membership, has died. He was 94.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the prosecution of 24 humanitarian workers ahead of the resumption of their trial, calling the case a “perverse misrepresentation of life-saving humanitarian work” and urging Greek authorities to drop the charges.
Year after year, the number of landlords declaring unpaid rents from both commercial leases and primary residences is increasing.
Scott Adams, whose experience as a bank and phone company middle manager gave him the material to create the comic strip “Dilbert,” a daily satire of corporate life that became a sensation but was dropped by more than 1,000 newspapers after he made racist comments on his podcast in 2023, died Tuesday at his home…