Cartoon (09/03/2023)
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Every miracle lasts three days – and so does mourning. Then, all hell breaks loose and Greece goes back to doing what it does best, which is shifting responsibilities. It’s the opposition against the government, the government against the opposition, railway network owner OSE against Hellenic Train, the company that operates the trains, and vice-versa,…
Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos held a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar on Thursday in which the two men highlighted the importance of keeping lines of communication between the two countries, as well as bilateral meetings, to create an environment of trust and co-operation.
Turkey has acknowledged that Sweden and Finland have taken concrete steps to meet Ankara’s concerns over their bids to join NATO and the three will hold further meetings, Sweden’s chief negotiator in the accession process said on Thursday.
The meetings of the European Commission’s delegation of experts in Athens regarding the deadly rail crash at Tempi have now been concluded, Commission spokesperson Adalbert Jahnz said on Thursday in response to questions. The visit was agreed in a telephone call between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen…
A 57-year-old Spanish man was arrested at Athens international airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” on charges of helping four Cuban nationals leave Greece using stolen travel documents. The four Cubans were also arrested.
The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) announced 89 deaths related to Covid-19 on Thursday for the preceding week. The positivity rate remained stable.
An animal park in Athens on Wednesday said it had found a rare white tiger cub under a garbage bin nine days ago.
A railway inspector and two more station masters were charged on Thursday in connection with a massive train collision in northern Greece last week that killed 57 people and injured dozens.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has indirectly put to rest widely circulated reports that the general elections would take place before Orthodox Easter (April 16), government sources said on Thursday, as the cabinet met to discuss the implications of the deadly train collision in northern Greece last week.