Entrepreneur Aristotelis Mistakidis, through his single-member company Alpha Sports Group, has taken control of Thessaloniki club PAOK’s basketball division by acquiring a 60.81% stake. The deal was finalized on Thursday following the completion of all financial and accounting reviews.
Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis and his deputy minister, Thanos Petralias, presented Greece’s 2026 Budget and the Multiannual Financial Planning 2026-2029 to the cabinet, outlining budgetary estimates and commitments for the next four years.
The Anti-Money Laundering Authority has frozen the assets of two former protected witnesses in the high-profile Novartis case, along with those of 12 additional individuals who allegedly received unexplained payments linked to them.
Old offices and ground-floor shops across Athens are gaining new life as they are converted into homes or short-term rentals. The housing crisis and rising investment interest have pushed owners to rethink these aging assets and bring them back into the modern urban fabric.
The family of a 19-year-old professional soldier (EPOP) is seeking answers surrounding his death at a Rhodes shooting range, where he was killed during a training exercise on Wednesday in a grenade explosion.
As a powerful storm system named Adel continued to pound mostly western and northwestern Greece on Thursday, flooding streets and homes, and causing landslides and road closures, the weather service EMY said in an updated alert that the rain will affect most parts of the country in the next 48 hours.
A woman was lightly injured on Wednesday when the car she was driving crashed into an electrical goods store in Nafplio, southern Greece.
A 35-year-old man was arrested on Thursday after a woman living in the same migrant centre in northern Greece reported him for sexual harassment.
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Turkey on his first foreign trip, fulfilling Pope Francis’ plans to mark an important Christian anniversary and bring a message of peace to the region at a crucial time in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and ease Mideast tensions.
The electrical interconnection of Crete with Attica will premiere at the beginning of 2026 with smoke continuing to billow out of the chimneys of PPC’s oil-fueled units in Crete.