ATHEX: Benchmark closing in on 900 points
The Greek stock market climbed to a four-week high on Wednesday, as its benchmark closed just below the 900-point mark with winners outnumbering the losers three-to-two.
After the face masks
The lifting of the last Covid-related health restriction – the obligatory use of a mask indoors – marks the end of a long period of turmoil.
Group admits planting bomb at policeman’s house, threatens investigating magistrate
A group styling itself “Revenge Rebels” have taken responsibility for planting an explosive device found at the house of an Athens police officer in March 2022 in a text posted on a website linked to the anti-authoritarian spectrum.
Tehran slams French and German responses
Ιran has denounced the responses of France and Germany regarding the seizure last week of two Greek tankers in the Arabian Gulf by Iranian forces, after the two countries condemned the move.
Sanctuary and guns
Those Americans sure are weird! Troubled people go on shooting sprees and kill children in their classrooms, and they are debating if they should abolish the constitutionally protected right to gun ownership.
Unreliable and dangerous
Ankara’s hardline rhetoric and mounting provocations, including the systematic violations of Greek airspace by Turkish military jets, appear to forewarn of a repeat of the heated summer of 2020.
Rigoletto | Athens | June 2, 5, 8 & 11
The Athens Epidaurus Festival has started, and it has an exciting lineup this year. One of the program’s highlights is the Greek National Opera’s first big production for 2022, Verdi’s “Rigoletto.”
Sakellaropoulou: Turkish revisionism must be seen in geopolitical context of Russian invasion of Ukraine
Greece is facing Turkish revisionism just as Latvia has been aware of Russian behavior and has been warning the international community about it for years, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said in the Latvian capital on Wednesday.
Lesvos to be first Greek Aegean island with direct ferry service to Izmir
Lesvos is to become the first Greek Aegean island to have a direct ferry service with Izmir in Turkey. The service is scheduled to begin on June 17, when the ferry will sail from from Izmir to Mytilene port.
Kilkis man gets 13 years for killing uncle
A court in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, handed a 13-year jail sentence to a 28-year-old man who killed his uncle in March 2021.