A 16-year-old high school student was hospitalized at Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital in Athens with fractured jaws following a violent incident involving six other students in Eretria, on the island of Evia.
Bulgaria’s second-largest parliamentary grouping, the reformist PP-DB, has declined a request from the president to try to form a new government, increasing the likelihood of a snap election in the European Union’s poorest member state.
A court in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday convicted a 20-year-old local man of possessing hundreds of files of child pornography, and sentenced him to six years’ imprisonment.
Several island municipalities have turned to the Interior Ministry for funding to address acute housing shortages for teachers, doctors and other public servants, following a similar initiative launched by the Municipality of Agios Vasilios in Rethymno, Crete.
two tractors belonging to farmers from the Nikaia blockade near Larissa in central Greece who attended Tuesday’s meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion, reports said Wednesday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stressed the need for talks to resolve current regional tensions in a call with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi on Wednesday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said.
Greek-American actor Eleanna Fin (born Eleanna Finokalioti), raised between the islands of Crete and Rhodes and now based in New York, will appear in the lead role of Little Short Sally in the new Off-Broadway musical “Always Young,” presented at Theater for the New City from January 15 to February 1.
The daily limit for money transfers between individuals through IRIS Person to Person (P2P) has doubled to 1,000 euros, and payments to freelancers and small businesses via IRIS Person to Professionals (P2Pro) have also risen to 1,000 euros per day. Monthly limits for P2P transfers remain at 5,000 euros.
Maria Karystianou announced late Tuesday that she has resigned from the board of the association representing families of victims of the Tempe rail disaster, stepping down from a body she had chaired until recently amid growing internal divisions.
Former Cypriot president George Vassiliou, a successful businessman who helped to energize his divided island’s economy and set it on the road to European Union membership, has died. He was 94.