Cultural landmark: Attikon’s slow resurgence
Amid slow and deliberate restoration efforts, the listed iconic Attikon building complex on Stadiou Street in Athens inches toward revival, nearly 13 years after a devastating fire.
Amid slow and deliberate restoration efforts, the listed iconic Attikon building complex on Stadiou Street in Athens inches toward revival, nearly 13 years after a devastating fire.
The ruling class, and the political class in general, in Greece has been disturbed by the praise US President-elect Donald Trump heaped on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, recognizing Turkey’s intervention and involvement in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad as a positive development.
TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb, which alleged the firms were unlawfully sending European Union user data to China.
Greece’s Permanent Representative to the UN Evangelos Sekeris criticized Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure during the UN Security Council session on Ukraine on Thursday.
In an unusual act of vandalism, unknown individuals have stolen patches of grass from a children’s playground in the southern Athens suburb of Elliniko.
Emergency crews have responded to a gas leak in the Thermi suburb, southeast of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece. No injuries have been reported.
The European Union’s top migration official said Thursday that deportations were a key priority for the bloc’s executive branch, as Greece grapples with a high number of people arriving illegally across the country’s borders.
Cyprus on Thursday hailed US President Joe Biden’s memorandum allowing military sales, including arms, to the island as a milestone affirming recognition as a pillar of stability in the east Mediterranean region which has been fraught with conflict.
At least 30 people have died in Istanbul over the past three days after drinking bootleg alcohol, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Thursday, as authorities intensified a crackdown on counterfeit drinks.
Authorities in Turkey arrested a mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) early on Friday, after prosecutors accused him of rigging public tenders, an accusation his party dismisses as politically motivated.