The police arrested a 49-year-old man on Thursday in connection with the Pangrati arms cache. The suspect had been allegedly paying rent to the owners of the warehouse. He was brought earlier on Thursday to the offices of the police counter-terrorism unit to be questioned. According to information from Kathimerini, the suspect is a philologist …
A 19-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection to the shooting and fatal injury of a 5-year-old boy in the Markopoulo area of Attica last week. The Roma child was in a car with his parents when it came under fire from another car. The accused, also a Roma community member, admitted to …
[Shutterstock] A 16-year-old was arrested for revenge porn and possession of child pornography on Wednesday. According to the police, the teenager had been distributing edited pictures of 11 underage girls since last August. Additionally, a child pornography video was discovered during a search of his phone. The police investigation began following a report to the …
Here, amid seven mountain ranges, countless peaks, and thousands of trees, the authentic charm of the Greek countryside endures. While Ano Chora offers tourist amenities, the character of this secluded region, with its quaint villages and sparse population, remains unspoiled. In the village square, the ancient, polished bus affectionately known as Karnavalos (Carnival King), which …
[Xinhua] An exhibition featuring dozens of artifacts on loan from Greek museums opened to the public on Thursday in Beijing, offering a panoramic view of the history and culture of ancient Greece. “The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great” will run until May 18, 2025, at the Capital Museum of China, before moving to its …
[Turkish Defense Ministry via AP] Turkey has voiced sharp criticism of a European Commission map delineating potential maximum maritime zones for Greece, calling it an affront to its territorial claims in the Eastern Mediterranean. Although the map is part of a broader EU maritime spatial planning initiative unrelated to Greek-Turkish negotiations, Ankara perceives it as …
[Shutterstock] A 10-year-old boy died after collapsing during a shopping trip with his mother in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday evening. According to reports on Thursday, the boy’s mother called an ambulance when her son said that he was feeling very unwell but he collapsed before paramedics could reach the shopping center …
A car passes by a giant billboard demanding the release of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, in Ramat Gan, Israel, on Wednesday. [Reuters] A bipartisan group of US lawmakers, including Greek-Americans Gus Bilirakis and Nicole Malliotakis, plan …
[InTime News] Leftist SYRIZA on Thursday saw its position as the main opposition slip away after two of its MPs defected, leaving the embattled party with 29 MPs and its spot taken over by third-placed center-left PASOK. Influential SYRIZA lawmaker Theodora Tzakri on Thursday morning told Mega TV that she was planning to leave the …
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has named Greek-Australian academic and cinema scholar Vrasidas Karalis as one of its 41 new fellows. Karalis, 64, is an associate professor of Modern Greek at the University of Sydney and co-editor of the Modern Greek Studies Journal. He is also the president of the Sydney Society of Literature …