The pavilion adjacent to the Church of Saint Demetrios Loumbardiaris on Philopappou Hill, designed by architect Dimitris Pikionis (1887-1968), has been transferred to the Municipality of Athens by the Greek Public Properties Company (ETAD) in order to protect and restore this neglected Athenian landmark.
At election time we ask ourselves whether things today are better than they were four years ago. The answer is, by definition, subjective.
With 16 days to go to the polls “I want to speak only about the future; we have a plan and a program,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said on a visit to Amaliada and Pyrgos, in the northwestern Peloponnese, on Friday.
A Ukrainian delegate punched a Russian delegate in the face during a gathering of Black Sea nations in the Turkish capital on Thursday, after his Ukrainian flag was snatched away to stop him photobombing a video interview with Russia’s lead delegate.
Refugees are being sought to fill job vacancies in the tourism and agriculture sectors, the head of the employment service of a leading NGO has said. Speaking at a job fair in Thessaloniki organized to connect refugees and employers, sociologist Mary Asvesta of Solidarity Now said refugees often take on hard and difficult jobs.
The Orion 23 Special Forces – Special Operations Forces Exercise, which was held in parallel with Iniochos 23, was completed on Thursday with the participation of contingents from the US, France, Cyprus, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro.
Running at Athens’ Elize movie theater through May 14 and at Thessaloniki’s Vakoura from May 11 to 21, the Horrorant Film Festival delights in frights.
The World Health Organization said Friday that Covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.
OTE Group, the country’s biggest telecoms operator, reported a 4.6% rise in first-quarter net profit thanks to cost containment and its growing Greek mobile business. Net profit came in at 135.3 million euros, up from 129.4 million euros in the first quarter last year.
A 22-year-old woman has received a six-month jail sentence, suspended for three years, after being found guilty of leaving her four-month-old baby in a car while she did her shopping.