More turmoil in SYRIZA as three cadres quit party executive
Greece’s main opposition SYRIZA is in for more upheaval, after three cadres announced their intention to quit the party’s executive bodies, but not the party itself.
Greece’s main opposition SYRIZA is in for more upheaval, after three cadres announced their intention to quit the party’s executive bodies, but not the party itself.
NATO appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general on Wednesday, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world’s biggest security organization.
The crew members of a yacht accused of starting a forest fire last week on the Greek island of Hydra are expected to deny arson charges when they appear before a judge on Wednesday, a legal source said.
The Greek police’s organized crime unit broke up a meeting of Russian-speaking gangsters who had gathered in central Athens on Tuesday, making 13 arrests.
The Athens Municipality will be conducting an audit of the authority’s finances following the discovery by the new administration of a significant shortfall in its coffers after assuming office nearly seven months ago.
A man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at a car repair shop in southeastern Cyprus, in the enclave of Ormideia, on Tuesday. His identity has not yet been determined.
Athens residents are advised that fighter jets will be conducting flights over the Greek capital between 9.30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
The Court of Appeal of Tirana on Tuesday upheld the two-year jail sentence issued by the court of first instance against Fredi Beleri, the elected ethnic Greek mayor of Himare in southern Albania, and now MEP for ruling New Democracy.
Mistakes and omissions have emerged in the case of the devastating wildfire on Friday night on the Saronic island of Hydra sparked by fireworks shot off a yacht privately chartered by 10 Kazakh nationals, reportedly including oligarchs.
After an overnight battle with a large wildfire on a craggy hillside in Rethymno, western Crete, firefighters were able to bring the blaze under relative control by Wednesday morning.