The suspect’s scooter appears in this undated police handout photo. [Handout/Hellenic Police] A food delivery rider was formally charged Tuesday over a string of drive-by stoning attacks that targeted women walking in the affluent northern Athens suburbs. The 28-year-old suspect, who is a Pakistani national, was arrested on Monday in Nea Erythraia, where many of …
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made an appeal for peace in a reference to the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine on Tuesday, during an official visit to Athens where he addressed Greek lawmakers for the first time in 25 years. “It is a fact that the modern version of so-called realpolitik has completely taken …
A European Union that does not fully include Turkey cannot develop into a global center of power, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. The Turkish leader also argued that Greece and Cyprus are the primary obstacles to Ankara’s path toward EU membership. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Erdogan said the accession process has …
Senior Turkish officials are warning that Ankara will turn its full diplomatic and military attention to the Aegean Sea and Cyprus once the conflict involving Iran concludes. More specifically, a senior Turkish diplomat told Kathimerini that Greek Patriot missile systems recently deployed to Karpathos and the Evros region, along with a permanent fighter aircraft presence …
Concordia University has appointed Effrosyni ‘Faye’ Diamantoudi, a Greek-born economist and long-standing administrator, as provost and vice-president. Her five-year term began on 1 May 2026, following approval by Concordia’s Board of Governors. She had previously held the role on an interim basis since September. Her appointment comes at a time of financial pressure, enrolment uncertainty, …
Greece is expanding access to high-cost medications by allowing private pharmacies to dispense drugs previously available only through state insurer EOPPY outlets, where patient wait times routinely exceed 90 minutes. The Health Ministry aims to shift roughly 67,000 of EOPPY’s 180,000 monthly prescriptions to private pharmacies. Currently participating pharmacies can dispense treatments for multiple sclerosis, …
[John Liakos/Intime News] Santorini’s recent seismic slowdown has not ended the underlying crisis, scientists say, as new data show persistent deformation across the southern Aegean volcanic arc. Seismicity has declined since the February 2025 surge, but “has not returned to pre-crisis levels,” said Margarita Segou of the British Geological Survey. Weekly events above magnitude 2 …
File photo. Police are investigating two separate attacks against teenagers that took place in Athens on Sunday night, saying the two incidents may be linked. The first victim, a student aged 15, was hanging out with friends at the corner of Vouliagmenis Avenue and Ilia Iliou Streets in the district of Neos Kosmos, when the …
[Shutterstock] The owner of a real estate business in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, told police that he was targeted by thieves who stole €297,000 from his office safe. The man told the authorities that he found a hole in the wall of his office from where the suspects likely entered the premises. The case is being …
Rising costs and weakening demand are tightening pressure on Greece’s economy as the impact of the war in the Middle East deepens, with manufacturing and tourism showing increasing signs of strain and policymakers warning of broader risks. In the industrial sector, the latest data point to a dual shock: higher production costs and slowing orders. …