A major plume of Saharan dust that has affected much of Greece is expected to subside during the course of Wednesday, the National Observatory of Athens’ DUST/METEO service said.
Voters in North Macedonia head to the polls on Wednesday for the first round of presidential elections, in a test vote that could define the country’s EU perspective. The tiny Balkan country changed its name in 2018, after signing the Prespes Agreement with Greece, in a process set to open its accession path to NATO and the EU.
Armed by the surprise move from Standard & Poor’s last Friday, upgrading Greece’s outlook to “Positive,” the Public Debt Management Agency is on Wednesday set to make its second major market foray for 2024, with a new 30-year bond.
The case file put together by the police Sub-Division for the Prevention of Sports Violence against the participants in the incidents that led to the death of 31-year-old policeman Giorgos Lyngeridis outside a volleyball stadium in Athens last December has shed light on the way the Olympiakos club hooligans orchestrated the attack, the internal hierarchy of Gate 7 organized fans and their relationship with the management of the team.
A 15-year-old boy from the town of Pella in northern Greece was arrested for putting out a lit cigarette on the cheek of a fellow classmate, state-run wire service AMNA reported on Wednesday.
A year ago, American officials seemed satisfied with how the war in Ukraine was going, thinking that the longer it went on, the more Vladimir Putin would bleed out, weakening his military and his country.
A shadow has been cast over the otherwise good Greek-American relationship by the US State Department’s report on the state of human rights in Greece in 2023, where, among other things, there is reference to allegations of mistreatment of migrants and asylum seekers, members of the LGBTQI+ community, and to the previous year’s complaints about the wiretapping case.
Armed by the surprise move from Standard & Poor's last Friday, upgrading Greece's outlook to "Positive," the Public Debt Management Agency is on Wednesday set to make its second major market foray for 2024, with a new 30-year bond.
A prosecutor has charged 67 Olympiakos club hooligans, arrested on Monday for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis, with 28 charges, including 12 felonies.
An Italian researcher believes he has identified the location of Plato’s burial place in Athens by analyzing papyri from Herculaneum.
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