One man has been confirmed dead and several passengers were rescued by patrol boats responding to their distress signal in the latest migrant boat wreck in the Aegean Sea, Agence-France Presse reported on Thursday.
A meeting between Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and the chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Menfi, in Tripoli was canceled at the last minute on Thursday. A few minutes after his airplane landed in Tripoli, the Greek official instructed it to take off for Benghazi, without disembarking.
On the last day of October, lawyer Andreas Akaras kept refreshing the United States Supreme Court website trying to confirm the information he had been hearing since that morning: that the ruling he had been waiting for had been published. Indeed, the long-awaited ruling had been published online that afternoon.
Ahead of a parliamentary debate, government and opposition clashed Wednesday over whether the provisions of a draft bill on wiretapping address privacy concerns raised by recent revelations that the cellphones of political leaders, ministers, journalists and others were tapped using spyware. With elections looming in the first half of next year, the government would like…
A well-known children’s charity has been put under investigation for abuse following the findings of an inquiry by the Greek Ombudsman, Kathimerini has learned.
John Psaropoulos, an independent journalist based in Athens and Al Jazeera’s southeast Europe correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to look at how a nexus of electricity cables, renewables, and possible pipelines are transforming Greece into an important production and import-export energy hub in the region.
US representative Nicole Malliotakis appeared confident on Wednesday that both the Senate and Congress will ultimately uphold a provision banning the sale of F-16s to Turkey without a firm commitment that the fighter jets will not be used against America’s allies.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose the end of the G20 meeting to repeat threats of a military strike against Greece, this time calling it a “basic principle.”
The big jump in the price of animal feed – a global problem resulting from the war in Ukraine – has led Greek livestock farmers to feed their animals as little as possible or having to send their herds for slaughter, while a big drop in the production of sheep’s milk in Crete means that…
A bipartisan group of 22 representatives has sent a letter to the US Congress and Senate urging lawmakers to maintain a provision in the final draft of America’s defense spending bill attaching conditions to the sale of F-16 fighter jets and upgrade kits to Turkey.