Category Archives: Latest Greek news

Mykonos: 58-year-old dies in sea accident

A 58-year-old man suffered fatal injuries while on board an auxiliary craft off Paraga beach on the island of Mykonos.

Playing the part of the West’s leader of choice

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama believes that the West will not sour relations with his country over an issue like the imprisonment of the mayor-elect of Himare, Fredi Beleri.

Man, 54, injured in late-night knife attack in Athens

A 54-year-old Pakistani national assaulted a fellow countryman using a knife on Ermou Street, located in the center of Athens, just before midnight on Sunday. The victim sustained wounds to their side as a result of the attack.

Wildfire near Alexandroupoli rages for third day

A wildfire continues to rage unchecked for the third consecutive day near the town of Alexandroupoli in northeastern Greece.

Updated vaccines for Omicron coming in fall

Updated vaccines targeting the Omicron subvariant of the coronavirus are expected in the United States in late September and in Greece by mid-fall, Theodora Psaltopoulou, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Athens, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA).

Three milestones before The Hague

Greek-Turkish relations are returning to the forefront having been shaped by the meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Vilnius and the decision to explore the possibility of referring the major dispute with Ankara, namely the delimitation of the continental shelf and EEZ, to the international court at The…

The weak, incompetent, indifferent and idle

I assume that before you build or buy a house you check some basic things: If it has water; if it’s linked to the sewerage system; if your trash will be collected; if the road leading to the property is in good repair.

Teachers wait until their 50s for a permanent post

The average age of the 3,600 newly appointed teachers and the 140,000 permanent teachers is over 50, according to data seen by Kathimerini, a stark illustration of one of the many distortions of the Greek secondary education system.

‘Let him be sworn in,’ Greece tells Albania

Athens is concerned that Fredi Beleri, the ethnic Greek who was elected mayor of Himare in southern Albania in the municipal elections of May 14 may lose his seat as a consequence of the tricks played by the government of Edi Rama.

Heightened wildfire risk across most of country Monday

There is an extreme risk of wildfire Monday in many areas in southern Greece, including the Athens region, the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry warns.