Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said Greece has sent diplomatic notes to Israel to protect its citizens aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were detained by Israeli forces after their vessels were intercepted on Thursday.
The heavy rainfall on Thursday caused significant traffic disruptions across Athens.
Greece’s first private university is expected to hold its inaugural class on October 20.
Lawyers representing Magda Fyssa, mother of murdered musician Pavlos Fyssas, have condemned a verbal assault against her by a supporter of the neo-Nazi organization Golden Dawn outside Athens Appeals Court.
Two years after the devastation caused by Storm Daniel, the people of Tsagarada are breathing new life into eastern Pilio’s ancient stone paths – and we walked them together.
Pundits, opinion analysts and, most likely, an overwhelming majority of the public, agree that politics has become too confrontational.
Schools on the islands of Rhodes and Zakynthos will remain closed on Friday as a precautionary measure, due to a bad weather front affecting large parts of the country.
During a speech in Parliament, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias expressed support for Panos Ruci’s request to exhume his son’s body to establish the cause of death.
Eleven members of the 27-strong Greek delegation participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla have announced that they are beginning a hunger strike to protest what they call their “illegal detention” by Israeli authorities.
The 40 boats carrying aid and foreign activists to Gaza intercepted by Israeli forces are expected to be taken initially to the Israeli port of Ashdod, then to a prison, before being deported.