Turkish warplanes struck suspected Kurdish positions in Iraq and Syria early on Wednesday in a new aerial offensive. The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria condemned Turkey’s airstrikes and urged the international community to intervene to stop what it called “Turkish aggression.”
With his government still reeling from the fallout from last week’s snowstorm and a toxic debate in Parliament, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought on Wednesday to cap a difficult run of events on a more positive note, announcing the permanent reduction of the much derided ENFIA property tax by 13%.
The main suspect in the murder of a 19-year-old man in Thessaloniki last Tuesday will appear before a prosecutor on Thursday.
Former president Christos Sartzetakis passed away early Thursday morning in a hospital in Athens. He was 93.
Police investigating the murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kampanos in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, in the early hours of Tuesday discovered a veritable hooligans’ arsenal at a soccer team fan club suspected of being linked to the perpetrators.
Hilton Athens, the capital’s landmark hotel, may have just closed for an overhaul and rebrand into Conrad and Waldorf Astoria, but the Hilton Group is developing two more units in Attica.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 shook the small island nation of Cyprus on Wednesday night, the country’s Geological Survey Department said. No damage or injuries were immediately reported. The tremor struck at 11:04 p.m. and its epicenter was 53 kilometers (33 miles) off the island’s western coast at a depth of 24…
Apart from the traffic and power disruptions, the snowstorm that swept through Attica last week also took a toll on thousands of trees.
The first cruise ship for 2022 is expected to dock at the port of Thessaloniki on Saturday, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Wednesday after a working meeting with Fraport Greece and Thessaloniki Port Authority (OLTH) officials.
The Greek marble industry’s collaboration with China has flourished in recent years and prospects for the future are bright, Julie Haidas, president of the Association of Marble Enterprises of Macedonia-Thrace (SEMMTH), has said.