This soup is rich in flavor and thick in texture, and is served at the Easter table alongside tsoureki, spicy kasseri cheese, pastourma, soutzouki and other cured meats, red-dyed eggs and cups of warm milk. Chef: Huseyin Ayvaz Prep: 40 minutes Cooking: 2 hours Ingredients (serves 6-8) • 1 whole chicken, about 1.5 kg • …
[Phileleftheros] A rescue operation is underway in Cyprus after a two-storey residential building partly collapsed at noon. The building is located in Germasogeia, an eastern suburb of Limassol. Local media outlet Phileleftheros said three people injured in the collapse have been transferred to hospital by ambulance, while efforts to free another are underway. Source link
The Mornos reservoir, a key water source for Athens, has shrunk to the smallest it has been since 2014. [InTime News] Water reserves at Greece’s Mornos reservoir have tripled over the past six months, ending an alarm over the capital’s water supply that had been raised last autumn. The reservoir held 156,996,000 cubic meters on …
Christians hold candles during the Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Holy Saturday, May 4, 2024. [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo] The annual Holy Fire from Jerusalem is due to arrive in Athens on Holy Saturday evening aboard a Greek government aircraft, ahead of its distribution nationwide for Easter church services at midnight. …
The Michanourgeio, a five-story, 996 sq.m. building on Athens’ Patission Avenue, was fully evacuated in May 2025 following the end of its occupation in July 2024. After years of squatting – some for as many as 29 years – several historic buildings belonging to the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) have been cleared and …
When she started working at the Payment and Control Agency for Guidance and Guarantee Community Aid (OPEKEPE) 24 years ago, she didn’t expect to find herself in the vortex of a high-profile, European-scale scandal. Paraskevi (Vivi) Tycheropoulou, an inspector at the disgraced agency responsible for distributing European farming subsidies, and the key witness in the …
[InTime News] Thousands of people took part in the candlelit Epitaphios procession in central Athens on Good Friday, marking one of the most solemn moments of Holy Week. Clergy led the procession while chanting hymns of lamentation, making three ceremonial stops along the route, including in front of Parliament and the Monument to the Unknown …
Athens-listed Metlen Energy & Metals on Thursday announced its revenue rose 25% to €7.11 billion last year, from €5.68 billion in 2024, reflecting the company’s strong growth momentum. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to €753 million, against €1.080 billion in 2024, primarily reflecting the impact of losses in the M Power …
[Vassilis Psomas/AMNA] From a strictly rational perspective, it is a funeral. Yet every Good Friday, this lived ritual of grief gathers kin and community, reenacting a tradition spanning centuries. In one small village in the Pindos mountains, parishioners once carried the bier themselves when a priest could not reach the church. “Shall we leave Christ …
[InTime News] The Holy Light will travel from Jerusalem to Cyprus on a special Aegean Airlines flight on Holy Saturday, to be distributed to other sites on the island, the carrier said on Thursday. According to a statement by Aegean, the arrival of the flight at Larnaca airport from Tel Aviv is expected at 5 …