Despite the pressure on Turkey to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership bid, with the US saying the sooner this happens the better, Turkey’s President Erdogan poured cold water on rising hopes that a deal might be near.
Six out of seven individuals who are accused of blackmailing shopkeepers in the southern suburbs of Athens were remanded in custody on Friday.
Storms that hit areas in western Thessaloniki as well as the city center on Saturday caused power cuts and flooding, Central Macedonia Region director of civil protection Charalambos Stergiadis told state-run news agency AMNA.
Twelve Pakistanis were among survivors from a boat packed with migrants that capsized off the coast of Greece this week, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday.
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis denounced migrant traffickers as “scoundrels,” following the tragic shipwreck off the southern Greek town of Pylos on Wednesday that cost the lives of at least 78 people, with hundreds still missing.
Regional authorities in Iraklio on the island of Crete will be launching an operation on Monday to demolish structures on beaches that violate coastal and environmental zoning and protection laws.
The mayor of the town of Doxato in Drama, northern Greece, died in a car crash on Saturday morning.
In “The Rustler,” acclaimed artist Ilias Papailiakis presents the musings of an epic journey of self-discovery inspired by diverse literary references, ranging from Homer’s Odyssey to Freud and the Bible.
Almost 1,200 pension applications are being processed per day by the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA), while last month, according to data from the Labor Ministry’s Helios database, almost 30,000 new pensions were paid out.
Firefighters in Thessaloniki received 300 calls for assistance following flooding in the northern city during the early hours of Saturday morning as the National Weather Service has warned of rain and storms in most parts of the country on Saturday.