Five police officers were injured on Saturday afternoon in central Athens after 60 to 70 people attacked a police precinct in the inner-city Kolonos district, lobbing rocks and other rockets.…
The Covid-19 figures on Saturday in Greece, exactly four weeks into a partial nationwide lockdown, showed a noteworthy reduction in single-day confirmed new infections – 1,383 – but only a…
A 110-million-euro investment by Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (ADMIE) to expand the 400 kV grid in the southern Peloponnese province has “stumbled” onto opposition by a local convent. According…
One of the more egregious squats in Greece, the City Plaza Hotel in central Athens, will now cost the Greek state 312,000 euros, compensation ordered by the European Court of…
Confirmed single-day new Covid-19 infections reached 1,667 on Friday, lower than in previous days but still more than 1,500 on a daily basis a day shy of an ongoing partial…
The pandemic-fuelled recession in Greece caused a GDP reduction of 11.7 percent in Q3 2020, compared with the same quarter of 2019, according to Greece’s statistical authority, EL.STAT.
Figures for…
Intubated patients with acute Covid-19 symptoms being treated in hospital ICUs posted another record high on Thursday in Greece, reaching 622, as the number has consistently stayed above 600 for…
Α new state-of-the-art outdoor elevator erected on the north side of the Acropolis in central Athens was inaugurated on Thursday, on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with…
A partial nationwide lockdown in Greece due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will be extended until Dec. 14, the relevant government spokesman announced on Thursday, something widely expected, given that…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic in the country as a “dramatic catalyst for change”, in his address at a chamber event, speaking as the…
One faint and coming “silver lining” in the calamitous Covid-19 pandemic for Greece is an announcement by Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla that the pharmaceutical giant – among the forerunners in…
Fatalities related to Covid-19 over the past 24 hours reached 89 in Greece, down from 111 the previous day, while 2,186 new single-day confirmed infections were reported, with the greater…
An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale was recorded at 12.54 p.m. (10.54 GMT) on Wednesday north of Athens, with the epicenter pinpointed 13 kilometers east of the south-central…
A decision last month to impose a three-week partial lockdown in the country – already extended to Dec. 7 – will more drastically affect the Greek economy than previously foreseen,…
Outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly eschewed all diplomatic “niceties” on Tuesday to accuse official Turkey of actually undermining the cohesion of NATO as well as opposing the…
Mytilineos group, a large Greece-based metals manufacturer and contractor, is reportedly ready to recommence construction of a power plant unit in Tobruk, Libya.
Construction was halted three years ago due…
The high concentration of Covid-19 exposure in the greater Thessaloniki area, in northern Greece, was again confirmed on Tuesday, with 538 out of the 2,199 confirmed single-day instances reported in…
Fatalities related to Covid-19 over the past 24 hours reached 111 in Greece, up from 85 the previous day, while confirmed new infections also doubled on Tuesday, a development attributed…
Washington’s ambassador to Athens on Monday reiterated that the US side wants to cooperate with Greece in fulfilling the latter’s interest in acquiring the F-35 fighter plane, in yet another…
The Mitsotakis government received a welcome fillip from the Eurogroup on Monday, amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its related repercussions on the local and global economy, with the euro-area’s…
Remaining capacity in Greece’s hospital ICUs is now at 13 percent, with the remaining units filled by intubated patients suffering from acute coronavirus symptoms.
The rolling average number of new…
Daily figures related to the Covid-19 pandemic eased in Greece on Monday, welcome news after three weeks of a partial lockdown was imposed to deflect a worsening “second wave”.
Specifically,…
Two Greek merchant seamen – a skipper and two crew-members – have been abducted by pirates off Nigeria, authorities in the west Africa country and Greece’s shipping ministry announced on…
Official Turkey issued another NOTAM – notice to aviators – over the weekend essentially trying to suspend any military activity on and around Greece’s eastern Aegean islands – essentially a…
Single-day Covid-19-related figures eased slightly in Greece on Sunday, a day after a record 121 related fatalities were reported on a 24-hour basis. Nevertheless, the number of intubated acute Covid-19…
State-run and ATHEX-listed power utility PPC received a bit of welcome news on Friday, as S&P raised its credit rating from CCC+ to B, up by two grades, with its…
Of the 2,013 new confirmed single-day Covid-19 cases on Friday, nearly half were recorded in the greater Thessaloniki and Athens areas, 545 and 319, respectively.
A surge was also noted…
The number of acute Covid-19 cases being treated in hospital ICUs around Greece continued to exceed 600 on Friday (607), while related coronavirus deaths reached 101 over the previous 24-hour…
A majority of European Parliament deputies on Thursday approved of a resolution condemning Turkey’s illegal activities in the closed-off Varosha coastal strip near the Turkish-occupied Cypriot city of Famagusta, warning…
Ruling New Democracy (ND) party fields a nearly 17-percentage point lead over main opposition SYRIZA – in an extrapolation of valid responses – in a latest prime-time opinion poll unveiled…
