The torch for the Paris 2024 Olympics was lit by the sun’s rays in a dress rehearsal in ancient Olympia on Monday ahead of Tuesday’s official ceremony that will mark the final stretch to the Games in France.
Tax audits have made a huge leap in recent years, mostly in terms of their quality.
Police have apprehended a 40-year-old suspect in connection with a shooting incident that occurred in the southern suburb of Nea Smyrni on Saturday, resulting in one person sustaining injuries.
No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved.
Turkey’s central bank posted a 2023 loss of 818.2 billion lira ($25.25 billion), showed its balance sheet published in the Official Gazette on Sunday, on the back of steep loss stemming from the “KKM” foreign exchange-protected deposit scheme.
Greece is closely monitoring developments in the Middle East with great concern following Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel late on Saturday, amid escalating fears of a major escalation in the Middle East conflict.
Hundreds of Greek Americans and guests braved the rain as they gathered along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in New York to partake in the annual Greek Independence Day Parade, which commemorates the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule.
Divisions have emerged within the Hellenic Police (ELAS) after the relocation in recent weeks to Attica and Thessaloniki of hundreds of officers, who are being paid an additional allowance of 4,200 euros per month, in an attempt to boost visible policing in the country’s two largest urban centers.
The Olympic flame lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia for the Paris 2024 Games will take place on Tuesday.
The combination of unseasonably warm temperatures, low rainfall and strong winds has prompted authorities to declare wildfire season open as of Monday, April 15, the earliest Greece has ever started implementing fire prevention measures.