The Supreme Court on Tuesday was hearing a motion to annul an appeals court decision regarding the deadly 2017 floods in Mandra, West Attica, and to send the case back for a retrial, at the request of a group of victims’ families.
Port authorities in Piraeus, Rafina and the islands of the Aegean are canceling dozens of ferry departures in response to forecasts for gale-force winds on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Last Friday’s upgrade by Moody’s opened up Greek securities to the markets of the Persian Gulf and further East, and to further inflows of up to 8 billion euros for Greek bonds.
Greek soccer is hoping that the men’s national team will continue the effort that began last September with its managerial change.
Police are investigating the death of a student at the Athens University campus in the suburb of Zografou after his body was found hanging from a tree on Tuesday morning.
Socialist PASOK joined leftist SYRIZA on Tuesday in demanding the ouster of Deputy Energy Minister Nikos Tsafos over two controversial social media posts referring to Turkey and Turkish claims in the Aegean and Cyprus.
Greece’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, has temporarily blocked the construction of two underground housing complexes with swimming pools on the Cycladic island of Sifnos, one of which was planned as a hotel.
The town of Florina got a first taste of a wintry weather front sweeping into Greece on Tuesday morning, as temperatures in the northwest dropped to -2 degrees Celsius and heavy snowfall caused schools to open an hour later.
Nearly a year after being sentenced to life in prison for killing her 9-year-old daughter Georgina by injecting her with a fatal dose of ketamine, Roula Pispirigou was found guilty on Tuesday of the murders of her two other children, Malena, 3, and Iris, who was just six months old.
Attica’s Traffic Police issued nearly 1,600 citations during regular inspections carried out between March 14 and 16 in different parts of the capital, the force reported on Tuesday.