A shocking accusation last week by one of Greece’s foremost female athletes, Olympic gold medal sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou, that she was sexually assaulted 23 years ago on the sidelines…
New single-day confirmed Covid-19 cases reported in Greece on Monday reached 320, based on some 9,000 tests (rapid and molecular) conducted the previous day around the country, while related deaths…
Two teenage juveniles, identified as brothers, were arrested on Friday night for the assault days earlier of an Athens metro supervisor, a particularly vicious attack captured on mobile phone and…
The Greek government on Friday, as widely expected, announced an easing of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, beginning on Monday, with most retailers allowed to open in areas with low concentrations of…
Greece’s oldest citizen, by most accounts, and possibly one of the oldest in the world, known to all as Mrs. Eleftheria, received Pfizer-BioNtech’s Covid-19 vaccine injection this week.
The supercentenarian…
The first major snow storm of the season is expected to blanket much of northern and central Greece over the weekend, with most of the mountainous regions in the north…
The Corinth canal, west of the greater Athens area, again closed to maritime traffic on Friday, following yet another landslide.
According to reports, an estimate 1,000 cubic meters of boulders…
Covid-19-related figures in Greece on Friday remained at mostly the same levels of the previous days, with the slow but steady decline of the pandemic’s “second wave” brought about a…
A Greek high court has reportedly ruled that a 2017 allowing the transfer of the greater Athens area’s only casino from a mountaintop overlooking the capital city from the northwest…
A wide Parliament majority on Thursday evening approved a defense contract for the procurement of 18 French-made Rafale warplanes
Voting in favor were the deputies from ruling New Democracy…
The Greek government is reportedly leaning towards an easing of a Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, with retailers expected to open on Monday with the “click away” method and by fielding appointments…
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) most recently revised maps tracking the Covid-19 pandemic throughout the continent shows a handful of Greek regions with the coveted green…
By L. Karageorgos [email protected]
An ambitious project to create an exclusive and upscale resort on the private isle once owned by Aristotle Onassis moved another step forward on Wednesday with…
Single-day confirmed instances of Covid-19 along with the number of cases of intutabed patients fell on Thursday, compared to the previous day, continuing a downward trend into the seventh week…
Greece’s conservative government on Wednesday unveiled a set of reforms for the country’s often troubled higher education sector, changes expected to generate a sharp reaction on the part of the…
Greece’s health minister on Wednesday cited a worrying figure related to new Covid-19 cases, saying that the medium age of infections in the country is now 46.
“This shows the…
Single-day new confirmed Covid-19 infections continued to ease on Wednesday, with related fatalities and the number of acute cases treated in hospital ICUs slowly dropping, with the Greece now into…
Heightened seismic activity on Wednesday around the west half of the Gulf of Corinth, in southwest Greece, rattled residents in the region and generated heightened attention by seismologists.
Successive tremors…
Greece has secured double the number of vaccinations for the Covid-19 virus than required, based on its population, the country’s prime minister announced on Tuesday evening. He put the figure…
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias reiterated on Tuesday evening, speaking from Parliament, that the next expansion of Greek territorial waters to the internationally recognized maximum of 12 nautical miles will…
By S. Zisimos [email protected]
The Greek government aims to allow the opening of retail stores – but with certain pandemic-related restrictions in place – as of Monday, Jan. 18, given…
New single-day confirmed Covid-19 cases (866) nearly doubled on Tuesday, compared from the previous day, although the number of daily related fatalities continued to drop, along with the number of…
A joint Epsilon Net-Space Hellas investment vehicle on Monday announced the long-awaited purchase of Marfin Investment Group’s (MIG) stake in the Athens-based software and platform provider SingularLogic.
SingularLogic is one…
Free wi-fi for visitors at a handful of Greece’s major archaeological sites and museums – when the latter open to the public after the pandemic lockdown – is finally a…
Greek Prime Minister reminded on Monday afternoon that the only object up for discussion in whatever “exploratory talks” with neighboring Turkey is the delimitation of maritime zones, speaking from Lisbon…
Covid-19 figures in Greece on Monday remained mostly at the previous day’s levels, with 444 single-day new confirmed cases reported; 350 acute cases being treated in hospital ICUs and with…
Greece-based Energean has announced the purchase of the 50-percent stake held by multinational Total in the Block 2 sea region in the Ionian Sea, off western mainland Greece, for the…
Primary, kindergartens and special-ed open in Greece on Monday after more than two months of remote learning and the subsequent Christmas-New Year’s holiday.
The opening has been combined with stepped…
Sunday’s figures for the Covid-19 pandemic in Greece showed a continued decrease in infections and related deaths, as a partial nationwide lockdown remains in effect since the first week of…
Partial pandemic-related lockdown measures throughout Greece were extended by one week, until Jan. 18, which includes the continued closure of most retail sectors – excluding supermarkets and pharmacies – along…
