Greek runner Charalampos Pitsolis won of the 39th Athens Marathon – The Authentic on Sunday morning, crossing the finish line at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens after two hours, 23 minutes and 42 seconds.
The Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, has rejected an appeal by 50 residents of the downtown Athens district of Exarchia opposing the construction of a metro station on the area’s main square.
PASOK-Movement for Change chief Nikos Androulakis has filed a complaint with the country’s highest administrative court challenging a provision that prohibits Greece’s privacy watchdog from informing people when their communications have been put under surveillance by the National Intelligence Service (EYP).
Two prosecutors have undertaken to investigate all allegations of electronic surveillance of dozens of individuals and this could lead in delays in the cases, Kathimerini understands.
A major security operation is being mounted across the Greek capital for Thursday’s anniversary of the November 17, 1973, student uprising against the military dictatorship.
Greece’s coast guard says dozens of migrants have been rescued from a sailboat that issued a distress call after it began taking on water while sailing in the eastern Aegean Sea.
A man arrested for multiple thefts escaped from a police van as he waited to appear before a judge at the Evelpidon court complex in downtown Athens on Monday.
Greece does not allow terrorists in its territory, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos said on Monday, after a Turkish minister said the suspect of a bomb blast in Istanbul on Sunday would have fled to Greece if she had not been arrested.
Foreign funds of over 5 billion euros have flowed into the Greek economy via the real estate market in the period from 2017 to 2021, according to Bank of Greece data.
While devoted to world economic issues, the upcoming Bali summit will inevitably be focused on the war in Ukraine. Indonesian conference host Joko Widodo has visited both Moscow and Kyiv to investigate peacekeeping options.