Experts vigilant after Mount Athos rocked by 4.9-magnitude quake
Seismologists are keeping an eye on activity around the Mount Athos peninsula in northern Greece after a 4.9-magnitude tremor rocked the historic monastic community on Wednesday.
Seismologists are keeping an eye on activity around the Mount Athos peninsula in northern Greece after a 4.9-magnitude tremor rocked the historic monastic community on Wednesday.
A new study by a group of Greek scientists points to a range of benefits – but also some risks – from adopting the fast practiced by millions of Orthodox Christians worldwide, particularly during Lent.
Police in Corinth have launched a manhunt after an armed robber made off with thousands of euros in cash from a post office in the seaside resort town of Loutraki.
Thirty-three ships under the Greek flag, as well as several ships of Greek interest flying foreign flags, were on Wednesday morning in the wider maritime area that includes the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Oman.
On one side, we have the regime in Iran and the threat it poses to global security. On the other, a unilateral intervention whose legality is under scrutiny. And Europe, for its part, is having to deal with the fallout of a war it has not chosen, comments Charles Michel.
The cabinet convenes Thursday amid a heavy political climate, focusing on a minimum wage increase to bring the monthly total to more than €900, and on foreign policy developments, officials said.
Greece recorded a significant decline in road traffic deaths in 2025, according to preliminary data from the European Commission, a development that moves the country away from the group of worst-performing states such as Bulgaria and Romania.
The country’s financial crime police have arrested 40 people, including three alleged ringleaders, in a sweeping fraud operation that cost Greece’s social insurance fund EFKA an estimated €20 million in unpaid contributions.
A World War II-era Italian artillery shell found in a residential part of Pefki, northern Athens, was safely neutralized early on Thursday, state broadcaster ERT reported.
The first offshore exploratory drilling in the Ionian Sea in 40 years will begin in the first quarter of 2027, according to plans by the ExxonMobil-Energean-Helleniq Energy consortium.