Army colonel charged with multiple bank robberies
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.
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.
Several parents in Thessaloniki kept their children at home on Tuesday following the death a day earlier of an 11-year-old boy in Serres, also in northern Greece, from an exploding school boiler.
The elections in Italy and the rise of a right-wing coalition under the leadership of Giorgia Meloni sent shockwaves through the heart of the European Union. The center, and especially the center-left, could not reverse the trajectory of its decline.
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.
A police officer appeared before a court in northern Greece on Tuesday over the shooting of a teenager who allegedly failed to pay a gas station bill, as protesters gathered outside.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama accused Greece of “cheating” to get into the European Union, just hours before he was due to meet with his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Tirana.
Members of Thessaloniki’s Roma community clashed with a riot squad outside a Thessaloniki court on Tuesday morning, during the arraignment of a police officer who shot and critically injured a Roma teenager. The 32-year-old police officer, a member of the motorcycle-riding DIAS squad, faces charges of manslaughter with possible intent and for discharging his weapon…