A former police officer convicted for the December 6, 2008 murder of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in central Athens is to be released after an appeals court in the city of Lamia accepted his clean criminal record up until the time of the shooting as a mitigating factor.
The Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) worker’s unions declared that they are planning a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, June 29. The union will also organize a demonstration outside the OASA headquarters demanding that a tender with privately operated KTEL intercity buses is not extended.
A fire near Aliveri on the island of Evia has been delineated according to the Hellenic Fire Service on Tuesday. The fire broke out at approximately 1.30 p.m. in a wooded area near the settlement of Aliveri.
Vessels of the Hellenic Coast Guard participated in a search and rescue operation to help stranded migrants and refugees off an abandoned fishing vessel near the island of Karpathos in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The Greek government has extended the deadline for customers to apply for rebates on the additional charges made in their power bills – known as Power Pass – to July 5, government spokesman Yiannis Economou said on Tuesday.
A ferry route connecting the northern port city of Thessaloniki with Turkey’s Izmir is expected to be inaugurated in July, Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis announced on Tuesday.
In a recent article in Kathimerini, a team of respected scientists recommended the introduction of open workshops at universities that would allow students to develop skills in areas such as robotics. Essentially this means cultivating a culture of creativity, innovation and invention.
A Mixed Jury Court in Thessaloniki upheld on Tuesday a life sentence handed to a resident vascular surgeon accused of killing a female patient in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, in April 2017 and then dumping her body in a forest.
Greece’s health authorities reported 20,084 new infections on Tuesday, as the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 continued to drive the sixth wave of the Covid pandemic in the country.