Cultural Routes | Everywhere | May 27-28
Presentations, educational program, thematic tours, rambles, walks, cycling excursions and artistic events make up “Greek Cultural Routes.”
Presentations, educational program, thematic tours, rambles, walks, cycling excursions and artistic events make up “Greek Cultural Routes.”
Insecurity, poor infrastructure and isolation are taking a toll on the will to learn of youngsters at refugee camps, according to educators.
Police in Athens have arrested five minors, who had taken over some rooms in a student dormitory from where they engaged in drug dealing, robberies and thefts. During the operation at Zografou student residence in central Athens, five male teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were arrested.
The Interior Ministry has announced the completion of the counting of ballots from all polling stations in Sunday’s general election.
A 40-year-old herpetologist is in intensive care in hospital after being bitten by a viper in a Thessaloniki school.
Serbia put its troops on the border with Kosovo on the highest state of alert Friday following clashes between ethnic Serbs and Kosovo police that left more than a dozen injured on both sides.
Sotirios Gkaintatzis danced across burning coals, his stomping bare feet raising sparks and puffs of smoke as he held aloft an icon of Saints Constantine and Helen. He is the leader of a group of “anastenaria” – the devotees of St. Constantine who celebrate these centuries-old rites in a smattering of small villages near Thessaloniki.
Police in Thessaloniki have arrested a 64-year-old tax official and an accomplice on suspicion of offering tax debt reductions to taxpayers in return for bribes.
Police on the island of Kefalonia have arrested two parents after their three-year-old son fell into a private pool and drowned. The parents, who are from Sri Lanka, were working in the house adjacent to the pool, when the tragedy happened, in the Minia area hear the airport.