Social worker arrested after gun found in children’s shelter
Police on Friday arrested the head social worker in the Ark of the World children’s shelter in Kalamata, in the southwestern Peloponnese, after a gun was found in a drawer.
Police on Friday arrested the head social worker in the Ark of the World children’s shelter in Kalamata, in the southwestern Peloponnese, after a gun was found in a drawer.
Secondhand items and shopping for clothes, shoes and linens at street markets are consumers’ solution to the rising cost of living. Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data show that in the third quarter of 2022 these two branches of retail trade showed the greatest increase in sales compared to the same period of 2021.
Authorities on Crete say they have arrested seven Egyptians suspected of having crewed a fishing boat crammed with nearly 500 migrants that lost steering in high winds off the island and triggered a major rescue effort earlier this week.
More than 600,000 people are expected to have retired three years from now, as both this year and next it is estimated that the number of pension applications will approach or even exceed 200,000 on an annual basis, approximately the same as in 2021.
Police have sealed off an area in the Athens central district of Kypseli after two hand grenades were found in a basement area. Bomb disposal experts arrived at the scene after the devices were discovered on Imvrou Street.
The future of Classics is the focus of a four-day international conference organized in the Greek capital by the Academy of Athens, the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Center for the Greek Language.
A 60-year-old man who was allegedly found with explicit photographs and videos on his phone of the 12-year-old Athens girl who was forced into prostitution by her mother’s employer was released from pretrial custody on Friday.
Following raids earlier this week on the Ark of the World headquarters in Athens’ Kolonos district and on a branch in Chios, in the eastern Aegean, the Hellenic Police expanded its search on Friday to the charity’s Kalamata shelter.
The chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Cyprus, Takis Arapoglou, is making a barrage of purchases of Bank of Cyprus shares, Kathimerini Cyprus reports.
Police in Thessaloniki have arrested two foreign nationals – a couple – for allegedly a fellow migrant woman to beg on the streets of the northern port city even though she was at an advanced stage of pregnancy.