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.
Dozens of demonstrators protesting the police shooting of a 16-year-old boy in Thessaloniki on Monday spilled out onto Athens’ central Mesogeion Avenue on Tuesday and set garbage bins on fire as they clashed with riot officers.
New reports have emerged in the Turkish media regarding more damage to the 6th century Hagia Sophia Orthodox cathedral in Istanbul, which was converted into a mosque in 2020.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu lashed out against Greece again on Tuesday, saying that Ankara will do “what is necessary” if Athens does not “back off” and meet its demands to demilitarize the islands of the eastern Aegean.
Eleni Varvitsioti, the Financial Times correspondent for Greece and Cyprus based in Athens, joins Thanos Davelis to look at a government initiative to give young Greeks, who have been priced out of the property market and forced to cover the cost of soaring rents despite little rise in their real incomes, a chance at homeownership.