A man was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting incident midday Sunday in Thrakomakedones, a northern suburb of Athens, police have reported. Two gunmen approached the victims and fired shots from a short distance, according to the report. The injured man has been hospitalized, while both shooters remain at large. The shooting occurred …
State Minister Akis Skertsos [InTime News] The government is preparing to introduce tougher rules permanently closing down shops that sell alcohol to minors, a leading government official has said. These provisions will be presented to Parliament early in the new year, State Minister Akis Skertsos told local media outlet SKAI. Under the new rules, enterprises …
Fire brigade crews rescued and relocated five persons whose lives were endangered by heavy rainfall in the wider Agrinio region, western Greece, on Saturday. Crews also conducted eight water pumping operations to remove water from flooded ground floors and basements caused by excessive water accumulation and torrent overflows in the Agrinio area. The deputy regional …
[InTime News] Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ announcements on government intervention to address issues within the banking sector are expected to dominate Sunday’s fifth and final day of parliamentary debate on the 2025 state budget, to culminate with a vote on the budget. In the lead-up to the budget debate, Mitsotakis has highlighted concerns over high …
The newly elected leader of SYRIZA offered an indication of the leftist party’s tactics going forward on Saturday, stating that society “does not want consensus politics or a tango for two.” Sokratis Famellos’ comments, made during a visit to the party’s regional committee offices in Achaia in the western Peloponnese, are seen as an apparent …
[Johanna Geron/Reuters] The European Commission has pulled the brakes on the disbursement of loans from the Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF), which have been outpacing grants, so that these two forms of support can develop evenly until their completion in August 2026. Greece will submit its fifth payment request this Friday, December 20, for a …
The decision to restore the damage sustained over the years by the dome of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has garnered significant attention from various media outlets in Turkey. For instance, the newspaper Sozcu and the news site T24 reported on it with headlines suggesting that the dome of the former Orthodox Christian cathedral, which is …
The brand new Thessaloniki metro keeps having teething problems. In the latest incident, a train stopped between stations Saturday evening. The passengers, after being kept inside for 15 minutes, had to walk to the next station. Since then, traffic between Nea Elvetia and Panepistimio stations, that is 8 of the system’s 13 stops, has been …
Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Staikouras presented the projects and initiatives of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in the Region of Crete at an event held in Rethymno on Thursday. The projects outlined in Staikouras’ presentation are: Construction of the Northern Road Axis of Crete, also known as the A90; construction of the …
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