Sailors from all over the world have been arriving in the coastal suburb of Kalamaki in Athens in recent days to compete for qualification for the Olympic Games sailing events in Marseille in the summer.
Synchronized swimming technical world champion Evangelia Platanioti achieved second place at the freestyle event at the Doha World Aquatics Championship on Tuesday.
As the average tenant spends over a third of his or her monthly income to cover housing costs, renters’ unions, organizations which are common elsewhere in Europe, are starting to gain ground in Greece too.
A 54-year-old from the northern city of Florina who was founded in possession of an extensive arsenal of military-grade firearms, ammunition and hand grenades last week has been remanded in custody pending trial. He told an investigating magistrate that he denied all the charges against him and claimed that his hobby involved collecting old weapons.
The leader of Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis has said that the group will further escalate if the Israeli attack on Gaza does not stop. The group fired naval missiles at two ships in the Red Sea on Tuesday, its military spokesman said, causing damage to Greek-owned Star Nasia and British-owned Morning Tide.
The state’s proposal to place offshore wind farms off Crete has united the island’s hoteliers in support of the preservation of the natural and manmade landscape.
Politician Eva Kaili, who is being investigated over corruption allegations dubbed Qatargate, could face legal repercussions if she speaks to the media about the scandal, Brussels-based news site POLITICO has reported.
A former Thessaly regional governor, Kostas Agorastos, is to be prosecuted over charges of dereliction of duty and other misdemeanors in relation to works conducted at the site of the deadly Tempe train disaster, the region’s prosecutor’s office has announced.
A second hospital death in a week is being attributed to a very invasive form of streptococcal disease that infects the respiratory tract.
A traffic policeman who became an Athenian icon for the cool and efficient manner with which he saw motorists in the capital’s northern suburbs through some of the most nightmarish traffic snarls of the late 1980s and through the 1990s has died, according to a social media post on Tuesday.