We’re going to die laughing

We’re going to die laughing

It is a great but unhappy privilege to be alive today, to see firsthand how humanity has failed to govern itself. Donald Trump and his chief advisers in the leadership of the global superpower personify this failure, as they found themselves in power not through violence or other primitive means, but through the process of …

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Kikilias pledges to ‘defend’ Crete against immigrants

Kikilias pledges to ‘defend’ Crete against immigrants

Vassilis Kikilias, the maritime affairs minister, meets Coast Guard officials during a visit to Crete. [Handout/Hellenic Coast Guard] Greece’s maritime affairs minister pledged Monday to “defend” the southern island of Crete against a wave of immigration in small boats that risk the long and dangerous passage from north Africa to reach European soil. Speaking during …

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AGORA corporate affairs forum in Athens next month

AGORA corporate affairs forum in Athens next month

The AGORA – 4th Corporate Affairs Forum 2026 will take place on May 7, at Aigli of Zappeion, central Athens, bringing together for the fourth consecutive year political leaders, academics, diplomats, experts, journalists, and Corporate Affairs executives from Greece and abroad. At a time when the complexity of public policy is increasing, while the need …

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Rhodes man gets 10 years for incest against daughter

Rhodes man gets 10 years for incest against daughter

A court on the Dodecanese island of Kos has jailed a 56-year-old man from Rhodes to ten years’ imprisonment after finding him guilty of multiple counts raping his daughter and committing incest. As a result of the rape and incest, the daughter, now aged 31, gave birth to a child three-and-a-half years ago. She told …

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Youth, 16, charged over severe hit-and-run accident

Youth, 16, charged over severe hit-and-run accident

[InTime News] An Athens prosecutor on Monday brought criminal charges against a 16-year-old motorcyclist over a severe weekend hit-and-run accident that left a teenage girl critically injured. The youth, who has been identified as a Sudanese national, was formally accused of dangerous driving that resulted in severe injuries, driving without a license and abandoning the …

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Judicial probe after car tumbles into Thessaloniki building site

Judicial probe after car tumbles into Thessaloniki building site

A Thessaloniki prosecutor has ordered an investigation after ground subsidence during a cable-laying project led to a parked car tumbling into a fenced construction site Monday. The incident beside what used to be the Papafis stables in the city’s Toumba district reportedly came after a water main was ruptured during work to lay optical fibres …

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Teenage girl hospitalized after fall from school balcony in Haidari

Teenage girl hospitalized after fall from school balcony in Haidari

File photo. A 13-year-old student was hospitalized in critical condition Monday after falling from a first-floor balcony at a school in the Athens suburb of Haidari, authorities said. The incident occurred at around 11 a.m. at the 7th Middle School of Haidari. The girl was initially taken by ambulance to Attikon Hospital and later transferred …

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Parliament panel backs lifting immunity of 2 ND lawmakers in subsidies probe

Parliament panel backs lifting immunity of 2 ND lawmakers in subsidies probe

Parliament’s ethics committee has recommended lifting the immunity of New Democracy lawmakers Charalambos Athanasiou and Anastasios (Tasos) Chatzivasileiou, whose names appear in a case file from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office related to an investigation into OPEKEPE, the Greek agency responsible for distributing and auditing EU agricultural subsidies. A plenary vote on the two lawmakers, …

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Georgiadis to sue former ND lawmaker over corruption claims

Georgiadis to sue former ND lawmaker over corruption claims

[InTime News] Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said Monday he will file a criminal complaint and civil lawsuit this week against former New Democracy lawmaker and current independent MP Marios Salmas over recent public remarks he described as defamatory. “I have been thoroughly investigated by everyone. I have nothing to hide,” Georgiadis said in an interview …

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Farm scandal continues to weigh on political scene

Farm scandal continues to weigh on political scene

Lawmakers listen to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a plenary session of Parliament in Athens, on March 4. [Nikos Halkiopoulos/Intime News] Parliament will vote Wednesday on whether to lift the immunity of 13 lawmakers from the ruling New Democracy party who are allegedly implicated in a farm subsidies scandal. However, some members of the ruling …

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