Kimberly Guilfoyle, nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as US ambassador to Greece, was approved by the full US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, Kathimerini understands.
The Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki will remain closed for 15 days due to staff shortages and urgent internal restructuring.
Nikos Roussanoglou, a journalist at Kathimerini covering the economy and the housing market, joins Thanos Davelis to break down the latest statistics showing a decline in home ownership in Greece amid rising costs across the housing market, and look at what these trends mean for Greeks.
A female bear with multiple gunshot wounds was found dead on Tuesday in the Stavropotamos area of Kastoria, northern Greece, environmental group Callisto said.
A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor and the chief rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of insulting and threatening a public official and sentenced him to a year and eight months in prison.
Satellite analysis by the METEO unit of the National Observatory of Athens has revealed a striking rise in soil temperatures, up to 10°C, in areas affected by the August 2024 wildfire in Varnava and Penteli, northeast of Athens.
A case file involving a senior judge at the Athens Court of Appeals, accused of systematic drug use and purchases from dealers, has been forwarded to the Piraeus Prosecutor’s Office of Appeals.
Coast guard officers carried out nearly 3,000 inspections of water sports rental businesses between June and mid-July, issuing more than 260 violations and imposing fines totaling nearly €80,000, authorities said on Wednesday.
Police carried out a raid at Korydallos Prison on Wednesday, during which 11 inmates were arrested on charges related to drug and weapons offenses.
July is harvest time in Greece’s northern peach orchards, where pickers mount wooden ladders and carefully place the fruit in crates ready for factories that peel, slice and can them, often for consumers in the United States.