Long lines of traffic formed for several hours on Thursday morning, after a car caught fire inside the Efpalinos Tunnel in the direction leading to Corinth, forcing the tunnel’s temporary closure.
A 44-year-old man wanted in Switzerland for online fraud was arrested at the Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” on a European arrest warrant on Tuesday night, police said Thursday.
The Berlin-based, convention-defying opera company Novoflot is traveling to Athens to appear in the Elefsina European Capital of Culture program.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second such capture by Tehran in under a week amid heightened tensions over its nuclear program.
Three 15-year-old students on a school trip to the island of Aegina, near Athens, were injured while disembarking from their bus, police said on Thursday.
As part of the moves to strengthen the European defense industry, based on the increased need for defense equipment resulting from the war in Ukraine, Hellenic Defense Systems (EAS) will, sources say, receive €60-80 million in funding from the European Defense Fund to increase production of 155mm projectiles.
Foreign citizens and Greeks living abroad will be able to pay any tax obligations with credit and debit cards issued by foreign banks from late 2023.
Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar expressed “hope” on Wednesday that “the Greeks will find the right path and come to the right place” during an interview where he proposed the joint exploitation of the natural wealth of the Aegean.
A 17-year-old from Crete, who was imprisoned in a youth detention center in Volos, central Greece, for about six months, told police he was gang raped and beaten throughout his incarceration.
Since 2020, the EU has suffered two large shocks – the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – that have increased longer-term fiscal pressures through higher debt and higher public investment needs.