Temperatures dip to -8 degrees Celsius in north of country
Temperatures in mountainous areas in northern Greece dropped to almost -8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday morning, according to the Athens National Observatory’s Meteo service.
Temperatures in mountainous areas in northern Greece dropped to almost -8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday morning, according to the Athens National Observatory’s Meteo service.
Police in Athens are searching for two teenage girls suspected of involvement in a fight between a number of minors in the city center on Monday night in which one girl was stabbed in the leg with a butterfly knife.
Police in Athens have launched a manhunt for four armed robbers who held up a luxury watch store in central Athens and made off with over a dozen highly valuable timepieces.
The platform for the granting of support to households in grocery stores, the so-called Market Pass, will be ready by mid-February, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras told Skai Radio on Monday.
Athens Municipality foresees revenues of over 1 billion euros (up from 917.6 in 2022), an increase of investments by 153% compared to 2019 and funding form European and national resources worth 510 million euros in 2023, according to the city’s 2023 budget agreed on Monday.
Police officers operating in central parts of Athens are installing portable cameras on their uniforms during Christmas week. In particular, the cameras will be deployed from 6 a.m. on Tuesday to 6 a.m. until December 27 in the jurisdiction of the police departments of Exarchia, Omonia, Kolonos, Kypseli, Agios Panteleimon, Syntagma and Acropolis.
A tax office on Crete was badly damaged in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Firefighters spent three hours trying to bring the fire on the first floor of Iraklio tax office under control. The tax office remains closed for business.
Starting on December 21 and on a number of dates through January, the Greek National Theater is presenting the premier of Greek playwright Penny Fylaktaki’s “The Other One” with English surtitles.
The Nicholas J. and Anna K. Bouras Foundation, a philanthropic organization that provides aid to Greek Orthodox agencies, churches and to human service organizations, has completed its US$1 million matching grant to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation.
Recent actions by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which included a threat to fire a Typhon missile at Athens, are “not only disturbing, they are totally unacceptable,” Bob Menendez, chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Monday.