Covid-19: Intubations rise to 697, new infections ease to 5,157
Health authorities announced 5,157 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m. Saturday, down on Friday’s figure of 6,201.
Teacher who hit vocational school student fired
Greece’s Education Ministry accepted this week a recommendation by a disciplinary committee to fire a male teacher of an Attica vocational school who was caught in a video hitting a female student in the classroom.
Faces of Athens over 200 years
The bicentennial of the start of the Greek War of Independence has yielded a rich harvest of books in English that shed new light on this seminal event in Greek and European history.
Three jailed over fake IDs scam
A police officer, an employee at a municipal birth registry office and an Albanian national, all accused of being part of a criminal gang supplying fake Greek IDs to criminals and foreign nationals, were remanded early Saturday after a lengthy deposition in front of a corruption crimes prosecutor and an examining magistrate.
Pope Francis meets Mitsotakis as part of Athens visit
Visiting Pope Francis met with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday afternoon, as part of the religious leader’s there-day visit to the country which started earlier in the day.
Kallos | Online
The Museum of Cycladic Art has unveiled a microsite allowing audiences far and wide to enjoy the spectacular displays of its ongoing exhibition “Kallos: The Ultimate Beauty.”
Top court: Mandatory vaccination is constitutional
The Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, ruled Friday that the mandatory vaccination of health workers, the fire brigade and others against Covid-19 does not violate the Greek Constitution.
Former president Sartzetakis hospitalized in ICU with pneumonia
Former president Christos Sartzetakis is being treated for pneumonia in the intensive care unit of Laiko General Hospital in Athens, the hospital announced in a press release Saturday.
Pope Francis warns of ‘retreating democracy’ in the world
Pope Francis on Saturday warned about a “retreating of democracy” in Europe and the world in his first speech in Athens as he started his three-day visit to Greece.
More US equipment arrives at Alexandroupolis
US helicopters and vehicles arrived in Alexandroupoli on Friday in what Greek and American officials described as the largest deployment of US forces through the northern Greek port to the Black Sea and Eastern Europe.