Another femicide was added to the gruesome list of murders of women by their partners on Saturday, after a 25-year-old man in Piraeus shot and killed his 19-year-old girlfriend and then turned himself in.
The lawyer of Father Antonios Papanikolaou, the founder of the Ark of the World children’s charity which is under investigation for child abuse and financial crimes, spoke for the first time on Saturday, lashing out against the Church, the government and the NGO’s new board of directors.
The downtown Athens house where Maria Callas spent her youth, from 1937 to 1945, will be restored and turned into an opera academy dedicated to the legendary Greek soprano.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities was marked in Greece on Saturday with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis noting four measures removing the barriers faced by people with disabilities.
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake rattled the island of Evia Saturday, followed by a second earthquake with a similar magnitude.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis indirectly but clearly expressed his unmistakable perturbance over the attitude of banks regarding the government’s push to support borrowers during his meeting on Friday with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
The Greek Air Force general staff said on Saturday that an investigation is underway into the death of a Greek Air Force aircraftman who died as the result of a gunshot wound received while on duty.
Migrant deaths in the Mediterranean are “unacceptable and almost always avoidable,” Pope Francis said on Friday, renewing a call for policymakers across the region to address the issue in a manner “beneficial to all.”
Curated by Nikos Vatopoulos and Iris Kritkou, “Polykatoikia” is a mixed-media event focusing on the Athenian apartment building, a bane or a boon, depending on the point of view, that transformed the Greek capital.
Survivors of the wildfire that swept through the seaside resort of Mati in eastern Attica in 2018, leaving 104 people dead, scores of injured and mass devastation, have described a hellish experience during the trial of 21 defendants including the former Attica governor, and high-ranking municipal, civil protection, fire service and police officials.