UK police have said there has been no change to its role in the investigation into the disappearance of Ben Needham, a British toddler who went missing on the Greek island of Kos in 1991. In a statement issued Monday, South Yorkshire Police said it continues to act as a conduit for information sharing between …
A fisherman has been arrested accused of murdering a man found unconscious overnight in the sea off the southeastern Aegean Sea island of Kalymnos, authorities said Monday. Source link
Greece will withdraw air defense systems deployed at the start of this year’s US and Israeli attacks on Iran to the eastern border with Turkey, whose presence caused consternation in Ankara, reports said Monday. Source link
Police in the northeastern Evros border region have arrested seven alleged members of migrant-smuggling rings in recent days for trying to ferry deeper into Greece dozens of people who had illegally entered from Turkey. Source link
A prosecutor on the island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, has filed felony charges against a 44-year-old man for reckless driving, over his involvement in a car crash that killed two women. Source link
The head of Greece’s intelligence agency EYP, Themistoklis Demiris, and Supreme Court Prosecutor Konstantinos Tzavellas, have been summoned to a hearing at the Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee on May 20, over the wiretapping scandal. Source link
The extension of the Thessaloniki Metro to Kalamaria is expected to be completed this summer, adding 4.8 km of track and five new stations to the line, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Dimas said on Monday. Source link
Three men have been arrested by the police’s organized crime unit in a village in Crete as part of an ongoing probe into alleged fraud related to European Union farm subsidies. Source link
As the epidemiological profile and transmission chain of the hantavirus cases aboard the cruise ship are being studied more systematically, the scientific community’s initial concern about the possibility of broader transmission is gradually subsiding. Source link
The new planning framework for tourism is a positive, institutional step that fills a decades-old gap, but has prompted a reaction from the tourism industry. Source link