ATHENS - A man who was injured in the February, 2023 train trash in Tempe that killed 57 people and left many with serious burns and critical wounds has sued then-transport minister Kostas Karamanlis, who had blamed those on duty before resigning.
After 2023 summer protests driven by some island residents upset that public beaches were essentially being confiscated by private business, the New Democracy government said it would limit leases for their use to 30 percent of beach space.
ATHENS - While refugees and migrants in Greece are held in detention camps, some awaiting decisions on getting asylum hope to find it in Belgium, although European Union rules only let them apply in the first country in which they land.
ATHENS - Cotton farmers in Greece’s agricultural heartland of Thessaly are upset over recommendations that their crop might have to be sacrificed because it takes so much water to cultivate - worries about the region drying out after 2023 floods.
ATHENS - Three people, including two foreign nationals, were placed under arrest following a police raid in the Zografou university campus in Athens on Saturday morning.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast on Friday, killing at least 16 people, officials said.
ATHENS - The Greek anarchist neighborhood of Exarchia and another have been hit with attacks by arsonists burning vehicles at random, the fires near residences and leading residents to protest and set up a defense plan.
ATHENS - A control mechanism to prevent the uncontrolled prescription of medicines not approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is being institutionalized by the Ministry of Health.
While parts of Greece’s agricultural heartland in Thessaly are still under water from September, 2023 floods brought by a storm that caused devastation to crops and livestock, climate change could make it a desert.
ATHENS - After recommending a 52-year-0ld shopkeeper be acquitted of raping and pimping a 12-year-old girl, a Greek prosecutor said her mother should be convicted for sexual abuse and exploitation.
ATHENS - A 55-year-0ld shopkeeper who earlier reportedly admitting having sexual relations with a then 12-year-old girl and pimping her out - with 213 men professing interest - should be acquitted, a prosecutor recommended.
Four nomad jellyfish, which can reach 1 meter (3.
ATHENS - A rally called by Greece’s Communists (KKE) saw thousands gather in the capital’s downtown to protest the deployment of a warship to the Red Sea to help stop attacks on commercial ships by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
THESSAOLONIKI — Nine people jailed in Greece will be tried Monday over accusations they harassed and threatened two 21-year-old transgender persons in the northern city of Thessaloniki.