More than 340 Sudanese migrants remain at a makeshift reception center in Hania’s Agyia district weeks after arriving near mid-August, local officials said. Conditions at the former exhibition hall are unsuitable for long-term housing, and the city has spent over €610,000 on food and maintenance without state aid, Deputy Mayor Eleni Zervoudaki said. Confusion over…
A wildfire broke out in a forested area in Avia, east of Kalamata, southern Greece.
Istanbul’s jailed Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has appeared in a prison courtroom over claims he had fraudulently obtained his university diploma, the first hearing in the case of the popular opposition figure whose arrest earlier this year triggered nationwide protests.
Nikolas Theodorou has become the first Greek chess player to defeat a reigning champion in the World Chess Championship since the title was established in 1886.
The number of irregular crossings by migrants detected in Crete in the first eight months of the year increased by more than 310% compared to last year, preliminary figures released by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, have shown.
Nikos Michaloliakos, the jailed leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, has been released from prison following a decision by a judicial council at Lamia Misdemeanor Court.
A Thessaloniki court on Friday sentenced two Turkish nationals to two years in prison and fined each 5,000 euros for illegally residing in Greece.
The trial of the head of the cardiac surgery clinic at Ippokrateio Hospital, accused of bribery, has been postponed to September 22.
The surface area and water reserves of Lake Mornos, in Central Greece, are decreasing according to Meteo meteorological service of the National Observatory of Athens.
With the completion of the international tender to explore for natural gas in four blocks south of Crete and the Peloponnese, American energy giant Chevron, which had largely “provoked” the tender by expressing interest, submitted a bid, together with HelleniQ Energy.