Easter house ‘squatters’ arrested in Thessaloniki
Two men were arrested on Monday for breaking into a house in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, and staying there over Easter Sunday and Monday while the owner was away, police said.
Two men were arrested on Monday for breaking into a house in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, and staying there over Easter Sunday and Monday while the owner was away, police said.
Deputy Agriculture Minister Makarios Lazaridis refused on Tuesday to resign over his disputed academic qualifications, saying he “did not have to justify” his credentials to opposition parties calling for his removal.
Hollywood stars of Greek origin, including actress and singer Rita Wilson with her husband, actor Tom Hanks, Nia Vardalos and Melina Kanakaredes carried the Epitaphios during the traditional procession in Los Angeles on Orthodox Good Friday.
The mother of a 14-year-old boy who suffered serious injury after a firecracker exploded in his hand last Sunday said her son found it on the ground while playing with his friends.
The Greek social security system has languished in a peculiar “gray zone” for years, where laws have been passed, circulars have been issued and decisions of high courts have been passed down, without ever being fully implemented.
Police on the island of Kefalonia are investigating the death of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found early Tuesday morning in the central square of the town of Argostoli.
A former student opened fire at a high school in southeast Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people before killing himself, an official said.
Despite the prevailing feeling that tax rates are significantly reduced this year in terms of the taxation of individuals, the bills being sent out this year are expected to be the heftiest yet.
The United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) said on Monday it has increased patrols in the area of Pyla, a village located within the buffer zone in the southeast of the country, after the unauthorized entry of Turkish Cypriot security personnel.
Alexis Tsipras’ decision to reopen a decade-old political controversy has raised fresh questions about his strategy, which had seemed aimed at centrist voters.