A former railway chief has told the parliamentary inquiry into the deadly Tempe railway collision that when the general railway traffic code is not being followed by personnel, “no [electronic safety] system can save you.”
A man faced a prosecutor on Friday on charges of possession of an extensive arsenal of military-grade firearms, ammunition and hand grenades.
Athens’ prosecutors office has ordered an investigation into the founder of one of the country’s best-known soup kitchens on charges that he embezzled and misused at least 600,000 euros in donations.
As part of the government’s stated commitment to crack down on needless and time-consuming bureaucracy, the Digital Governance Ministry plans to gradually abolish the endless number of certificates required in the transactions between citizens and both the private and public sectors with the introduction of the relevant legislation in the coming months.
Protesting farmers who have lined up their tractors outside the annual agricultural fair in Thessaloniki have indicated their intention to escalate their protests, despite the government announcing it will extend a special tax return on agricultural diesel by a year.
The Athens Urban Rail Transport Company (STASY) has launched a new app on its website (stasy.gr) where passengers with mobility disabilities and disabled people in general are informed in real time about failures of elevators at stations.
Police in Thessaloniki have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of antiquities smuggling after coordinated operation in western Greece and Athens. The operation began on Wednesday morning with the arrest of the suspect in Aitoloakarnania.
A loan agreement between Britain and Greece over the Parthenon Marbles may be on the table after Mark Jones, the British Museum’s interim director, told a British newspaper that he would support such a plan.
Turkish authorities detained seven people suspected of selling information to Israel’s Mossad intelligence service in connection with tracking and monitoring local targets, a Turkish security official said on Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the conflict in Ukraine with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan during his upcoming visit to Turkey, the RIA news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.