It’s a boy! Athens zoo welcomes birth of rare pygmy hippo
A rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus has been born in Athens’ Attica Zoological Park for the first time in 10 years, delighting conservationists.
A rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus has been born in Athens’ Attica Zoological Park for the first time in 10 years, delighting conservationists.
Delays in the administration of justice by the Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, is usually the rule rather than the exception, as there are currently 11,000 cases pending.
Greece raised 250 million euros ($271.00 million) in a reopening of its 3.875% government bond maturing in June 2028, its debt agency PDMA said on Wednesday.
The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO had criticized Greece’s refusal to allow peers to be involved in the process of appointing senior judges and prosecutors.
Nasos Balerbas, secretary-general of the Interior Ministry, will replace in the coming days another ministry official with a similar title, who resigned over a data breach scandal in which emails were sent to diaspora voters by a Conservative European Parliamentarian, Kathimerini understands.
A man wearing a mask help up a bank branch in the Athenian suburb of Holargos on Wednesday morning, police said.
The European Union’s rights watchdog raised concern on Tuesday about the bloc’s new 7.4 billion euro ($8.03 billion) agreement with Egypt that includes provisions to curb migration, saying it falls short on human rights safeguards.
The security plans submitted by rectory authorities of the major Greek universities will be evaluated during a meeting with the leadership of the ministries of Education and Citizen Protection at the latter’s headquarters, according to reports.
Greek lawmakers on Wednesday will discuss the findings of a House committee probe into the deadly Tempe train crash, in what is expected to be a tense debate amid accusations of a cover-up by opposition parties.
The president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, Alexandros Vassilikos, met with Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni on Tuesday. Vassilikos conveyed the concerns and worries of the chamber’s members and representatives of tourist businesses regarding the Ministry of Culture’s draft law which includes a provision imposing a specific quota on the public performance of Greek-language…