Athens’ former mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis, has accused his successor, Haris Doukas, of “cheap communications tactics” and inconsistency over plans for an important thoroughfare in the city center that has undergone numerous controversial transformations in recent years.
The UN Human Rights Council is due next month to review a report on mercenaries and private security operations in Cyprus, following a January fact-finding mission by its working group.
Two teenagers were killed early Thursday in a car crash on the Kastoria-Amyntaio National Road near the small town of Korissos, in northern Greece, authorities have said.
Climate change that has driven scorching temperatures and dwindling rainfall made massive wildfires in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey this summer burn much more fiercely, said a new study released Thursday.
All Athens Metro stations will be equipped with a defibrillator, following a donation by the Massoutis supermarket group and implemented by the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry, it was announced on Wednesday.
A crisis at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine’s in Sinai, Egypt, has escalated into a prolonged struggle over leadership and control, drawing close attention from both Athens and Cairo.
Greece’s largest public sector union is staging a 24-hour nationwide strike on Thursday to protest a bill introducing new disciplinary rules for civil servants.
The Thessaloniki Court of Misdemeanors has postponed the trial of a 40-year-old Danish man accused of animal abuse at an organized campground, pending an expert veterinary opinion.
Reports of dead trees started coming in from central and southern Greece this spring, with areas that have undergone artificial reforestation proving especially vulnerable.
At MBDA’s missile launcher plant in Bolton, England, Britain’s minister for the armed forces, Luke Pollard, stood with his hand outstretched as a test engineer sprinkled tiny microelectronic specks onto his palm as if they were fairy dust.