Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet in New York on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. This marks their sixth meeting in 15 months, probably the most frequent high-level communication in the history of relations between the two countries.
Greek rail workers have called a strike for Thursday to protest the government’s failure to enhance safety following the Tempe railway disaster in February 2023.
A wildfire that broke out near the town of Kapandriti, just a few miles north of the capital, was brought under control on Monday morning.
A bank was robbed at gunpoint on Monday shortly before 10 a.m. in Nea Filadelfia, western Athens.
Having ousted its leader, Stefanos Kasselakis, the main opposition SYRIZA is moving towards a party congress and leadership contest divided, its top officials almost daily clashing with each other.
A logger sculpts a representation of the Archangel Michael (Taxiarchis in Greek) from a tree trunk.
SYRIZA MP and former minister Olga Gerovasili said on Monday that she will not run for party president in the upcoming election on November 24.
A section of the Egnatia Highway heading towards Thessaloniki in northern Greece has been closed after a truck carrying iron materials overturned near Kozani. No injuries were reported.
Almost 19 months since the deadly train crash near the Vale of Tempe, in central Greece, that claimed 57 lives, Greece’s railways are still seriously underperforming.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the most important of a number of crucial encounters that he and Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will have on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York.