Authorities arrested two suspected members of a tobacco smuggling racket and seized thousands of contraband cigarettes in a police operation in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Monday morning.
The desperate search for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria entered its final hours Monday as rescuers using sniffer dogs and thermal cameras surveyed pulverized apartment blocks for any sign of life a week after the disaster.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday announced that a one-off benefit of between 200 and 300 euros will be given to pensioners who did not see increases in their pensions due to the so called “personal difference” – i.e. the difference between pensions issued before and after the May 2016 cutoff date – measure, during a…
The father of a 12-year-old girl told police his daughter was kidnapped and sexually abused by two people in central Athens on Monday afternoon.
Holiday operator TUI has seen a slowdown in bookings to Turkey since the earthquake but expects this trend to be temporary, CEO Sebastian Ebel said on an earnings call on Tuesday.
Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the Greek response to last week’s deadly earthquake and the new perspective it gives to Greek-Turkish relations.
The former lawyer for Salah Abdeslam, who had a major role in the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, has taken over the defense of Greek MEP Eva Kaili in the European Parliament corruption investigation, according to Politico.
Ioannis Kasselakis was sworn in as the new lawmaker representing Chania, Crete, in Greece’s parliament on Tuesday, taking the place of Manousos Voloudakis who died of lung cancer on February 8.
The European Commission upgraded its forecasts for growth and inflation in Greece in its winter report, amid a more general assessment that the European Union economy will avoid recession and that “the peak of inflation is behind us.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s need for “calm waters” in the Aegean is becoming a forced option, as the situation inside Turkey following the earthquakes in the country’s south has made his political survival a difficult gamble.