Household basket’s problems
The “household basket” of supermarket products protected from major price hikes is hitting one snag after another.
One dead after car swept away in Cretan flood
A 50-year-old man has died after his car was swept away in a torrent in Crete on Saturday. The incident occurred in the coastal town of Agia Pelagia, in Malevizio municipality, about 25 kilometers west of Iraklio, which has seen severe flooding in the last few hours.
Ninety-two migrants rescued in Evros river
Greek border guards and officers of EU border agency Frontex rescued 92 migrants from the banks of the river Evros, at Greece’s northeastern border on Friday, the Citizen Protection Ministry said in a press release on Saturday.
Death toll rises to 40 in Turkey coal mine explosion
Funerals for miners killed in a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey began Saturday as officials raised the death toll to at least 40 people. Desperate relatives had waited all night in the cold outside the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise’s (TTK) mine in the town of Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of…
EU foreign ministers to discuss Iran drones to Russia, future sanctions
European foreign ministers will on Monday discuss the transfer of Iranian drones to Russia and could come to a political agreement on future sanctions related to such activity, two diplomats said on Friday.
Putin courts Erdogan with offer to make Turkey Europe’s new gas hub
Turkey’s President Erdogan and Russia’s President Putin met this week in Kazakhstan, where Putin floated a proposal to turn Turkey into an energy hub that could feed Europe with Russian gas.
Tech’s impact on hospitality, education and culture – watch live
Welcome to the closing session of the Greek-British Symposium which explores ways to strengthen ties between the two countries in tourism, education and culture.
Profits of 2.3 bln go to subsidy
More than 2.3 billion euros was directed straight from the wholesale power market to the Energy Transition Fund for subsidizing electricity bills in the first quarter of implementation of the mechanism for imposing a ceiling on electricity producers’ revenues.
PM: Greece ready to assist Turkey over deadly coal mine explosion
Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his sadness over a fatal explosion at a coal mine in northern Turkey on Saturday, while offering assistance.
Erdogan persists with aggressive stance
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ratcheted up his anti-Greek rhetoric Thursday, less than 24 hours after Greece’s and Turkey’s defense ministers, meeting on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels, had agreed on the need to keep communications open and the rhetoric low-key.