Three suspected burglars arrested in Kefalonia
Police on the island of Kefalonia have arrested three individuals on suspicion of involvement in a series of burglaries in which goods worth up to €70,000 were stolen.
Police on the island of Kefalonia have arrested three individuals on suspicion of involvement in a series of burglaries in which goods worth up to €70,000 were stolen.
Greece is entering a historic phase in its democratic evolution. The planned creation of a global electoral constituency for Greeks abroad – combined with postal voting – will, for the first time, allow the diaspora to elect its own members of Parliament, a reform long overdue.
A French-flagged yacht carrying four people was completely destroyed after running into difficulty and being smashed against rocks off the southern coast of the Peloponnese.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias held bilateral talks with his French and Bulgarian counterparts, Catherine Vautrin and Atanas Zapryanov, on the sidelines of the NATO defense ministers’ meeting on Thursday.
Panathinaikos basketball club officially signed American forward Nigel Hayes-Davis on Thursday in a deal worth around €10 million over two and a half years, completing a last-minute turnaround in the player’s transfer, the team announced.
Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis and Course of Freedom leader Zoe Konstantopoulou have clashed in parliament after the latter accused the minister of defending the performance of a cookie factory where a deadly explosion last month killed five workers.
Europe has succeeded in largely weaning itself off Russian energy supplies in the wake of the war in Ukraine, and its growing dependency on US liquefied natural gas poses an incomparably lesser risk, experts said Thursday.
Bulgarian President Iliana Yotova has moved to quell the country’s chronic political instability by appointing a senior central bank official as interim prime minister until national elections in April.
Construction of Athens’ new metro Line 4 reached a significant milestone on Thursday morning as a tunnel-boring machine (TBM) successfully broke through into the under-construction shaft at Evangelismos station.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman referred to the 250th anniversary of the birth of Greece’s first governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias, during a press briefing in Moscow, describing him as the “Greek and Russian statesman and diplomat Ivan Kapodistrias.”