A prosecutor in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, filed serious criminal charges on Thursday against a 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing his girlfriend’s father in the leg during a verbal altercation.
Cyprus is once again making headline news as Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides becomes the first leader in the region to appoint a special representative – Ambassador Thessalia Salina Shambos – for religious freedoms and the protection of minorities in the Middle East. The move, welcomed in Washington, comes as new concerns about religious and ethnic…
A boat carrying more than 40 undocumented migrants was located off the coast of Samos in the eastern Aegean early on Thursday morning, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported.
I’ve been keeping abreast of all the discussions concerning who Greece’s next president is likely to be and I admit that it confirms by feeling that the country’s political system is incapable of rising above opportunistic attitudes and petty politics.
Police in Xanthi, northern Greece, are looking for clues into the identities and whereabouts of a group of armed burglars who broke into a house while the occupants were still there on Christmas night.
In a dim one-room apartment in one of Istanbul’s poorest neighborhoods, 11-year-old Atakan Sahin curls up on a threadbare sofa with his siblings to watch TV while their mother stirs a pot of pasta.
Beyond her broad smile, it is a delight to listen to Teti Hadjinicolaou narrate stories about the forgotten human side of Athens – the city where she was born, raised and still resides in the same neighborhood.
Greece will tap the markets for up to 8 billion euros next year, much less than its borrowing needs, thanks to the funds that will continue to flow into the economy and the targeted use of high cash reserves to reduce debt.
A lane of the Athens-Corinth highway was flooded on Thursday morning, causing delays for holidaymakers returning to the Greek capital after the Christmas break, as cold and wet weather spread across most parts of the country.
Greece was bracing for more wintry weather on Thursday, with heavy rain, gale-force winds and snow expected across multiple regions.