Canada will take in female Afghan judges and their families who have been living in limbo, primarily in Greece, since their evacuation from Afghanistan in the fall, a spokesperson for the immigration minister said Friday.
Police are investigating an attack with a homemade explosive device made of gas canisters outside the church of Agios Pavlos near Larissis railway station in Athens.
Greece badly missed elbow-injury victim Stefanos Tsitsipas in the singles when it was beaten by Poland on the opening day of the 16-team ATP Cup tournament on Saturday.
“I’ve never participated a more difficult excavation,” remarked site director Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki in a recent interview with Kathimerini’s “K” magazine.
Turkey sharply raised electricity prices by 50-100% for households and companies on Saturday, and again increased monthly natural gas bills, adding to strains in an economy facing soaring overall inflation.
Greece should delay the return to school for students for one week amid skyrocketing Covid-19 case counts largely driven by the Omicron variant, a top health expert said Saturday.
Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were – again – the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022.
Turkey’s lira has logged its worst year since President Tayyip Erdogan came to power nearly two decades ago, despite his appeal on Friday for Turks to trust his unorthodox policies of slashing interest rates in the face of soaring inflation.
Fireworks explode over the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill during New Year’s celebrations in Athens, January 1. [Yorgos Karahalis/AP]
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