Greece to verify asylum seekers’ age with medical tests
Greece will implement medical and scientific assessments to determine the age of asylum seekers claiming to be minors, Migration Minister Thanos Plevris announced Friday.
Greece will implement medical and scientific assessments to determine the age of asylum seekers claiming to be minors, Migration Minister Thanos Plevris announced Friday.
The Bernier/Eliades Gallery (11 Eptahalkou) in Athens is presenting Paolo Colombo’s third solo exhibition in the city, titled “Music and Mosaics.”
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras has defended his controversial decision to sign the country’s third international bailout in 2015, telling Le Monde that he remains “proud” of the agreement, which he said restored Greece’s financial autonomy after years of crisis.
Sixty-seven nongovernmental organizations have sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, defending their work and warning that the denigration of civil society “undermines society itself and the institutional functioning of democracy.”
The initial findings from inspections at the disgraced farm subsidy agency OPEKEPE will be made public at the end of August or early September, Rural Development and Food Minister Kostas Tsiaras has said.
Police on Friday continued the search for a 40-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his 36-year-old wife outside their apartment building in the port city of Volos, with new information emerging that he had recently been admitted to a psychiatric clinic.
The Culture Ministry announced plans to improve accessibility, safety and overall visitor experience at the archaeological site of Rhamnous, near Grammatiko in Attica.
Firefighters continued Friday to battle a wildfire that broke out late Thursday in the Valia Calda National Park, burning forest land in a remote, mountainous area.
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis has joined 24 counterparts from European countries, Australia and Britain in jointly condemning Israel’s plans to construct a settlement east of Jerusalem.
Turkey has broken ground on a railway connection from its northeastern Kars province to Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave, moving to take advantage of a US-brokered peace deal signed this month between Azerbaijan and Armenia.