Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha was punched in the face by a male bystander as he led a crowd of his party’s supporters to central Tirana for anti-government protests taking place meters away from the venue of an EU summit.
The European Commission on Tuesday urged Bulgaria to thoroughly investigate the alleged shooting by Bulgarian guards of a Syrian refugee on the country’s border with Turkey.
The funeral has taken place of the 11-year-old boy killed in Monday’s explosion in a boiler room at a primary school in the northern city of Serres.
Demonstrators protesting the police shooting of a teenage driver in Thessaloniki during a chase over an unpaid gas station bill have blocked the Corinth-Patras motorway near the town of Zevgolatio. Police say diversions are in place through the old national road.
Police in Serres, northern Greece, have made two arrests in relation to the deadly explosion of a school boiler in which an 11-year-old boy was killed and two other pupils, aged 6 and 10, were injured.
Health authorities on Tuesday announced a total of 43,748 confirmed cases of Covid-19 for the period from November 28 to December 4, of which 28% were reinfections.
The European Union has drafted a new proposal for normalization of ties between Kosovo and Serbia with a clear timeline of actions, according to a senior EU diplomat, speaking on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit on Tuesday.
European Union leaders and their Western Balkan counterparts worked to strengthen their partnership at a summit Tuesday as Russia’s war in Ukraine threatens to reshape the geopolitical balance in the region.
The Church of Saint Nicholas, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, is reopening on Tuesday, the day that its namesake saint is celebrated by the Greek Orthodox world.
A colonel in the Greek Army faces felony charges after being formally accused on Tuesday of holding up at least three Athens banks with the threat of violence.