Attempt to appoint new Ombudsman fails
An attempt to elect a new Ombudsman has fallen through, with the government’s nominee failing to secure the support of three-fifths of the members of Parliament’s 30-member conference of speakers.
An attempt to elect a new Ombudsman has fallen through, with the government’s nominee failing to secure the support of three-fifths of the members of Parliament’s 30-member conference of speakers.
A Thessaloniki court has found three youths guilty of possessing nude photos and videos of a 14-year-old girl and of trying to sell them to classmates for five euros a piece.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has charged that the European Union’s annual progress report on its accession process “reflects the unrealistic, unlawful and maximalist views of Greece and the Greek Cypriot side” concerning Cyprus.
Renewables market is saturated, but applications for new photovoltaic parks keep coming in.
Panathinaikos football club’s new head coach Rui Vitoria, from Portugal, has officially taken over at the Athens team, replacing Diego Alonso, the club announced Thursday.
Movie theaters across the country are offering 2-euro tickets on Thursday in celebration of the great art of cinema and of the film theater itself.
First scene: Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni, wearing black sunglasses, arrives in front of the Evelpidon courthouse. “I ask you to respect my privacy. I have two 3-year-old children, I am only here to shake their hands,” she says.
Hundreds of seasonal firefighters have gathered outside the Civil Protection Ministry, demanding permanent positions as their contracts expire following a grueling wildfire season.
A mayor from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was arrested late on Wednesday after prosecutors accused him of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), banned as a terrorist group in Turkey.
An explosion, suspected to have been caused by a gas leak, occurred early Thursday afternoon at an apartment in Athens’ Ambelokipi inner district, leaving one man dead and one woman injured, according to early reports.