Police nab church theft suspects
Police in the northern city of Grevena have arrested six people following an investigation into 40 thefts and break-ins in the area, in which churches were also targeted.
Police in the northern city of Grevena have arrested six people following an investigation into 40 thefts and break-ins in the area, in which churches were also targeted.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has attended the funeral of train driver Spyros Voulgaris, one of the 57 people killed in last week’s railway disaster at Tempe.
The economy expanded in October to December last year with higher consumer spending and investment more than offsetting lower exports, official data showed on Tuesday.
The jailed father of a train driver killed in the Tempe train crash is to be released from a Turkish prison so that he can attend his son’s funeral.
The European Railway Agency (ERA) has been warning successive governments in Greece, as well as the European Commission, since at least 2014 about safety gaps in the Greek railway system.
Two doctors have been suspended from duty pending a disciplinary inquiry after it emerged that they granted 30 days of sick leave to a key Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) supervisor just hours after the deadly train collision at the nearby Vale of Tempe.
It appears to be only a matter of time, specifically of weeks, for the return and placement in the Acropolis Museum of the three Parthenon fragments, which Pope Francis ‘donated’ to Archbishop Ieronymos last December.
The mayor of the East Attica town of Oropos has expressed regret over an incident concerning the treatment of a troubled 69-year-old resident by the crew of a private ambulance service working for the municipality, describing the incident “like something from the Middle Ages.”
The Vatican and Greece were finalizing a deal Tuesday for the return of three sculpture fragments from the Parthenon that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the latest case of a Western museum bowing to demands for restitution.
Greece constitutes a window to the countries of Western Europe for retail chains from Serbia, which have recently been active in this country and indeed with rapid growth rates.