The Anti-Money Laundering Authority has launched a general financial audit for bribes in railway network owner OSE and its subsidiaries, targeting officials who held positions of responsibility in OSE, its ERGOSE subsidiary and TRAINOSE.
Around 10% of Greece’s adult population suffers from some form of kidney disease, with 10% of that contingent having a serious problem that may have been averted at an earlier stage, the Hellenic Society of Nephrology (ENE) said on Thursday – World Kidney Day.
Construction work on a basketball court jointly funded by a Greek government donation has begun in Ghana, the Foreign Ministry tweeted on Friday.
A dwarf elephant the size of a Shetland pony that once roamed Cyprus was an example of the “island effect,” a rule in evolutionary biology describing how large-bodied species tend to downsize on islands while small-bodied species upsize.
The immediate relatives of people killed in the Tempe railway disaster will receive a special pension, as part of a package of measures announced by the government on Friday.
The government has asked the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) to advise it on ways to improve train safety after a crash on February 28 killed 57 people, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday.
Main opposition SYRIZA has attacked the government over the composition of the board of ERGOSE, a state-owned company responsible building railway infrastructure, saying it was exclusively made up of individuals drawn from the ranks of the ruling New Democracy party.
The Health Ministry has issued an announcement drawing the public’s attention to mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever and the Zika and Chikungunya viruses.
Greece’s Medical Association (PIS) has proposed measures to protect doctors and healthcare professionals from workplace violence, which grew during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A 37-year-old mother who has been in custody since last October over charges relating to the pimping of her 12-year-old daughter has requested that a police psychologist examining the child be called to testify before an investigating magistrate.