A sequence of two apparently related accidents within minutes of each other on Saturday afternoon on the Egnatia Odos in northern Greece left two people dead and two others lightly injured. In the first incident, a car traveling on the Ioannina-Igoumenitsa section reportedly crashed into a semi-trailer, possibly due to a slippery road surface caused …
Pavlos Yeroulanos, parliamentary spokesman for PASOK, called for a “full mobilization” of party members to secure victory in Greece’s next national elections, setting a target of 1.5 million votes and ruling out any governing cooperation with the conservative New Democracy. Speaking on the second day of the party’s congress in Athens, Yeroulanos, once and potentially …
Twenty-two migrants have died off the coast of Greece after spending six days at sea in a rubber boat, the Coast Guard said in a statement. Twenty-six people were rescued by a Frontex European border agency vessel off the island of Crete. “During the journey, the passengers (of the rubber boat) lost their orientation and …
[AP] Greece is pushing to overhaul food waste management in its hospitality and food service sectors (so-called HoReCa industry), with a new action plan, estimating that 250,000 of the 430,000 tons of bio-waste generated annually could be collected and processed within five years. The plan, commissioned by the Environment Ministry, proposes reducing food waste by …
[Shutterstock] Greece is establishing itself as the leading destination for chartering yachts over 25 meters in the Mediterranean. However, aesthetic nuisance and the necessary exclusion of beaches from the anarchic anchoring of yachts, as well as the need to protect the underwater Posidonia meadows, rendered imperative last year’s ministerial decision that created a framework for …
Athens Mayor Haris Doukas awarded the City of Athens Medal to 2025 Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai (center) at a ceremony held at City Hall. The Hungarian writer is participating in the inaugural Athens International Literature Festival, opening at Technopolis with free admission. Source link
Frontex officers, from the Italian Guardia Di Finanza OPV Osum, patrol by speedboat near Iraklio, Crete, February 16, 2026. [Lefteris Pitarakis/AP] A migrant dinghy in distress south of Crete triggered a rescue operation that saved 26 people, while survivors reported that 22 others died during a multi-day journey at sea. According to the coast guard, …
Fourteen years after the firebombing of the Attikon complex on Stadiou Street, little has changed for passersby, who see no visible progress on its restoration. Steps have been taken but slow, with no business plan or timeline made public. Molotov cocktails set the Attikon and Apollon cinemas ablaze on the evening of February 12, 2012, …
[Intime News] Police in Athens said they have launched all “necessary procedural and official actions” after a foreign detainee died in administrative custody on Friday. The man was found unresponsive in a detention cell at Omonia Police Station on Friday evening. An ambulance crew called to the scene declared him dead, while officers had earlier …
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis is embarking on a two-city diplomatic push in Libya this week, visiting both Benghazi and Tripoli in a bid to maintain active channels with the country’s rival power centers. Gerapetritis travels to Benghazi on Saturday to meet with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, and attend the …