A Swedish national, 40, was sentenced to 15 years in jail and fined 500,000 euros for organizing and directing the import of 190 kg of cocaine from Latin America to Sweden, an appeals criminal court in Thessaloniki decided on Thursday.
Survivors of a migrant shipwreck off Pylos, southern Greece, in June, in which hundreds died, filed a lawsuit against the Greek authorities on Thursday, accusing them of violating their duty to protect the lives of the people on board the vessel.
The 83-year-old man who had barricaded himself in his apartment in the district of Zografou in central Athens on Thursday and was threatening to open fire was arrested.
Citizen Protection Minister Giannis Oikonomou met with his Albanian counterpart Taulant Balla in Tirana on Thursday on the sidelines of the Berlin Process. The two discussed cooperation between Greece and Albania on security issues.
The Greek MEP, Eva Kaili, returned to the seats of the European Parliament for the first time after the Qatargate scandal on Wednesday, to attend the speech of the exiled Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
A man who police believes to be armed has barricaded himself in his apartment in the district of Zografou in central Athens on Thursday and is threatening to open fire.
The Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA SA) signed cooperation deal with the Port of Gdansk for research and exchange of best practices, the company said on Thursday.
The Medical Association of Magnesia in central Greece, one of the two regions hit badly by torrential rain last week, recommended a new postponement for the start of the school year citing serious health risks due to the contamination of the water supply system.
The Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered an inquiry into specific projects and their funding in the region of Thessaly that was devastated by the recent floods.
A delegation of Egypt’s Health Ministry, led by Minister Prof Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, visited the facilities of the private healthcare service, Athens Medical Group on Wednesday. The two parties signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoU).