The prosecutor in the trial into a 2017 flash flood that killed 25 people in West Attica assigned criminal responsibility to state services, local and regional, recommending that both the former governor, Rena Dourou, the then mayors of Mandra, Elefsina and Megara, and town-planning officials be found guilty of manslaughter, causing physical injuries and flooding.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech asked US regulators Tuesday to authorize an additional booster dose of their Covid-19 vaccine for seniors, saying data from Israel suggests older adults would benefit.
With the war in Ukraine triggering a wave of refugees, the Greek government insists negotiations on a new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum must now be completed.
One of the preeminent political scientists in Europe and director of research at Sciences Po in Paris, Jacques Rupnik talks to Kathimerini about the tectonic shift that has been taking place in Europe following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A new Health Ministry bill heading to Parliament next month seeks to prevent citizens from consulting specialists or getting expensive tests at public hospitals on the state’s tab without a referral from their personal doctor.
Daria Saville, of Australia, left, talks with Maria Sakkari, of Greece, after Saville retired from their match due to injury in the women’s Round of 16 at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament Tuesday, in Indian Wells, in southern California.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has said his country is ready to establish diplomatic relations and open its border with Turkey, the Turkish state-owned Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday.
The chairman of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, said that he would be opposed to the sale of next-generation F-35 fighter jets to Turkey unless the issue of the S-400 missile defense system the country purchased from Russia is resolved, in an interview with Tom Ellis, Kathimerini English Edition’s editor in…
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he was sending his foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, to Moscow and Kyiv this week as part of Turkey’s mediation efforts to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Renewed efforts were under way Tuesday to evacuate Greece’s Consul General Manolis Androulakis from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is under siege by the Russian Army.