Defense Minister Nikos Dendias has visited Greek troops operating an air defense system stationed in Saudi Arabia during his ongoing visit to the Persian Gulf states, the ministry said Thursday.
Thessaloniki’s municipal council has rejected a petition submitted by more than 23,000 residents demanding a say in plans for a large-scale redevelopment of the northern port city’s Helexpo fairgrounds.
A total of 18 sitting and former lawmakers from the ruling New Democracy party are at the center of a second major investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office into the OPEKEPE farm subsidy scandal, according to case documents transmitted Wednesday to Greece’s Supreme Court.
The test had come back positive just a few hours earlier, confirming the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Dimitris Triantafyllos’ flock in Pelopi, in northern Lesvos. All 200 sheep of his unit had to be culled and buried in a trench with lime.
A small gas-canister bomb exploded early Thursday outside a block of flats in central Athens, police said, causing minor damage and no injury.
A woman walks her dog in a haze caused by sand dust from the Sahara, due to strong southern winds, in Iraklio on the island of Crete on Wednesday, April 1.
Just as the government was basking in a rare positive moment, the prime minister’s office has been plunged back into turmoil after the European Public Prosecutor’s Office forwarded a new case file linked to agricultural subsidies agency OPEКEPE, requesting the lifting of immunity for 11 sitting lawmakers.
Defense technology company THEON International has launched its Belgian subsidiary and its state-of-the-art facility at Zaventem.
Strong winds, reaching as high as 9 on the Beaufort scale, were keeping morning ferries tied up in many parts of the country, including at Greece’s main port.
Greece’s stock exchange moved a step closer to integration with Euronext following a general meeting that approved renaming Hellenic Exchanges (EXAE) to Euronext Athens.