Police arrest eight following teen brawl
Police said Friday they made eight arrests after a brawl between young people on Thursday in the northern Athens suburb of Halandri, which resulted in the hospitalization of two 17-year-olds.
Police said Friday they made eight arrests after a brawl between young people on Thursday in the northern Athens suburb of Halandri, which resulted in the hospitalization of two 17-year-olds.
Interior Minister Makis Voridis has intervened to ascertain the legality of the decision by a mayor in Rodopi, northeastern Greece to fire workers accused of being supporters of Fethullah Gulen, a self-exiled cleric and preacher that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016.
Greece has made strides in reducing smoking over the last decade, especially among young people.
Signs are growing that the Chinese market will open up for visitors to travel to Greece faster than many previously expected. One such sign is the start of a second weekly direct flight from China, between Athens and Shanghai.
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck near the island of Crete on Friday according to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens. The epicenter of the quake has been identified at 40 kilometers north of the island and at a depth of 12.9 kilometers.
The City of Athens Symphonic Orchestra, acclaimed tenor Mario Frangoulis and Greek-French singer George Perris will see in the New Year in central Athens on Saturday.
US Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis has condemned the desecration, with Nazi symbols, of the monument dedicated to the old Jewish Cemetery of Thessaloniki on the premises of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
A digital mock-up released on Thursday depicts a plan to restore the historic Bayezid Mosque in Didymoteicho, northern Greece, which was gutted by fire in 2017.
A strong earthquake occurred late on Thursday night in the areas of Laconia and Messinia in the Peloponnese, southern Greece.
Eleusis European Capital of Culture 2023 has been awarded the Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes and a €1.5 million cash purse by the European Commission.