The Athens Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered the extradition of Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz to Romania, with an arrest warrant expected to be issued in the coming hours.
Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, the director of “Stelios,” a film that has surpassed 760,000 tickets, was unable to fully savor the joy of its success: “After the premiere at the Pallas Theater [in Athens] and in Cyprus last December, I tried to get up from an armchair and couldn’t.”
An Italian navy ship has arrived in Albania with 49 migrants intercepted in international waters for processing of their asylum applications at special Albanian centers, in the third such attempt following hurdles earlier raised by Italian courts.
A 26-year-old mother and her 44-year-old partner were given time until Wednesday to prepare their defence over charges of abuse and domestic violence against the woman’s three-year-old son.
A prosecutor in Athens has filed criminal charges for repeated indecent exposure and assault on a public servant against a 34-year-old flasher who was arrested in Peristeri, western Athens, on Sunday.
A 17-year-old girl from the western Peloponnese has accused a man of revenge pornography in a statement to the local police.
A 20-year-old student of University of Patras died at the city’s university hospital, where he was being treated for meningitis.
Greece’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris, on Monday referred to the humanitarian consequences of the situation in Sudan and especially in Darfur, describing them as “dire.”
In a major step toward streamlining its armed forces, the Greek military has moved 793 senior officers into retirement following an extraordinary round of promotions and evaluations.
As President Trump assumed office repeating his campaign slogan of “drill, baby, drill”, Greece announced that US energy giant Chevron is interested in exploring for oil and gas in Greek waters.