Sunday, April 28, 11.30 a.m.: I head up 116th St to campus. It is quiet, as though the protests of last week never happened. There are no police cars. A few journalists are setting up on the traffic island on Broadway.
The registration of working pensioners on the special electronic platform of the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) has exceeded all expectations, already reaching 78,000, and is increasing by the day.
Greece has secured a spot in Saturday’s Eurovision 2024 grand final in the Swedish city of Malmo.
Zakynthos’ most iconic site, the Navagio (Shipwreck) Beach, will remain closed for another year, according to a joint ministerial decision signed last week by the citizen protection, island policy and tourism ministers.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ will highlight the positive steps taken so far in Greek-Turkish relations during his visit to Ankara on Monday, while also expressing his dismay to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the conversion of the Byzantine Chora Monastery into a mosque.
Packed bars with carousing revelers spilling onto clogged streets. Takeaway booze swigged by drunken tourists and students. Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight.
Greece and Cyprus have overcome the crisis of the previous decade and are heading forward to steady growth.
Olympiakos became on Thursday the second Greek club ever to reach a European final.
Growth in Cyprus will be at 2.9% in 2024, according to the April projections published on the website of the republic’s Ministry of Finance.
The country has recently endured an extended period of intense polarization and toxicity – particularly during the decade of the financial crisis.