Students protest in front of the state-owned and operated radio station Radio Belgrade headquarters, over the fatal November 2024 Novi Sad railway station roof collapse, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday. [Kuba Stezycki/Reuters] Anger drove Marija Petrovic to join student protests in Belgrade in November. A railway station roof had collapsed days earlier in the Serbian city …
A segment of NATO’s Allied Reaction Force (ARF) exercise “Steadfast Dart 25” took place at the beach of Nea Anchialos in Volos, central Greece, on Thursday. Special operations units from Greece and Spain, supported by fighter aircraft and helicopters, landed on the shore and “secured” the neighboring airport of the 111 Combat Wing. The exercise …
Police have arrested an Athens taxi driver for drink driving after he tested almost three times over the legal limit. The 39-year-old taxi driver was stopped on central Mitropoleos Street after dropping off a fare from the airport. A breathalyzer test detected 1.48 mg of alcohol per liter of breath, almost three times the threshold …
Grid stability appears at an increased risk this Easter, especially the four-day period from Good Friday to Easter Monday. The reasons for that are the large decline in demand, as businesses are closed and a large part of the population goes to the countryside, and the high production from renewables. This year the risk is …
“The support of the capital’s public transportation is a central challenge for the government, and I am pleased to confirm today that this complex planning is being implemented exactly as we have scheduled,” stated Kyr. Mitsotakis, who was present today at the Renti depot on the occasion of the introduction of 100 additional buses. The …
Greece’s Ombudsman has identified several failures by the Hellenic Coast Guard in its response to the Pylos shipwreck, stating that the operation fell short of the legal duty to conduct search and rescue. The findings, published after an investigation into the June 14, 2023 sinking of the fishing trawler Adriana, highlight missing evidence and unexplained …
Legislative consensus among Greece’s opposition parties has reached a historic low, with just 11.4% agreement on government bills during the period from July 2023 to December 2024, according to a study by the KEFIM Institute. This marks the lowest level of bipartisan cooperation recorded since 2004, highlighting deepening political polarisation in the country. The study …
[InTime News] The increase in consumption, and not so much high prices, was the main factor boosting supermarket turnover in 2024, after two years of highly inflationary growth in the sector’s revenues. In fact, several categories, mainly detergents and cosmetics, recorded price reductions, being the categories on which government measures were focused. It was another …
The Greek island of Anafi has been placed under a state of emergency due to ongoing seismic activity, making it the third Aegean island to receive such a designation in recent days. Civil Protection Secretary General Vassilis Papageorgiou announced the decision on Thursday, stating that the emergency status will remain in effect until March 13. …
File photo. A 59-year-old man who killed his 52-year-old wife in the village of Sitochori, Serres, in northern Greece, took his own life hours later, authorities said. According to local reports, the man called police early Thursday morning and confessed to murdering his wife at their home in Sitochori. When officers arrived, they found the …