Greece’s Ombudsman’s office on Thursday urged the Coast Guard to conduct an “impartial and extensive” investigation into the death of 15 migrants in a collision between a Coast Guard vessel and a small inflatable boat off Chios this week.
Kos Biotechnology Partners, a global life sciences investment firm, has made its first investment, to Epikast, a US-Greek consultancy advising pharmaceuticals and other biomedical companies on expanding market access.
Greater Athens police said Thursday they have arrested a man and a woman from South America on suspicion of belonging to a gang that specialized in stealing from central Athens jewelry stores.
A member of Greece’s Armed Forces arrested Thursday on suspicion of leaking classified information to “third parties” is believed to have passed intelligence to a foreign superpower considered a major rival of the United States, Kathimerini understands.
Police in northern Greece said Thursday they have arrested a man suspected of belonging to a scammers’ ring that preyed on vulnerable people, demanding large sums of cash to cover fictitious emergency hospital treatment for relatives of their prospective victims.
Parliament passed a “legal migration” bill with the votes of the ruling New Democracy party, while all opposition parties voted against it.
Turkey’s state-run TPAO Petroleum and US giant Chevron Corp. signed an agreement Thursday to jointly explore for and produce oil and gas.
The Health Ministry said Thursday that nine people have died of flu and seven of COVID-19 in the week of January 26 to February 1, while there was a reduction in new cases of both diseases.
A man has been arrested on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesvos in a rare crackdown on graffiti vandalism.
Two Turkish men have been arrested on suspicion of illegally ferrying 30 migrants to Rhodes from the nearby coast of western Turkey, the Coast Guard said Thursday.