US Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, and his wife have been charged with bribery offenses in connection with their relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias called an urgent interministerial meeting on Friday to discuss a new storm that is heading towards Greece in the coming week.
US Senator Bob Menendez on Friday vehemently rejected the bribery offenses he and his wife were charged with by federal prosecutors in connection with their relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, calling them “baseless.”
In the 1937 movie “A Damsel in Distress,” Fred Astaire sang for the first time Gershwin’s song “A Foggy Day (in London Town).” Two lines in the lyrics, “I viewed the morning, with much alarm / the British Museum had lost its charm,” suddenly became very timely.
A24-year-old worker has died in a workplace-related accident in the western city of Agrinio. The man was working on drainage excavation works in the city. Initial reports say the man was hit by an excavator. The injured worker was transferred to Agrinio hospital, where he was pronounced dead. An investigation is underway.
Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe and free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there, the Cypriot Interior Ministry said Friday.
In an initiative of academic, diplomatic and political significance, University of Patras Rector Christos Bouras and Andreas Vafiadis, the president of the Hellenic Community of Alexandria, will on Friday sign a memorandum of university cooperation.
A 9mm revolver used in the murder of six young Turks in the east Attica town of Loutsa on September 11 last week has been recovered two kilometers from the murder scene. While the weapon contains no fingerprints, a ballistics investigation showed that it was used in the multiple murder.
The previous two months have seen a significant increase in migrant flows, pushing the islands’ reception and hospitality facilities to their breaking point.
Greece will seek to make climate and migration central tenets of its work on the UN Security Council should its candidacy for the body for 2025/2026 be successful, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the 78th UN General Assembly on Thursday.