A garage fire aboard a large ferry boat headed to Crete from Piraeus erupted at roughly 4 a.m. (02.00 GMT) as it was sailing eight nautical miles off a Saronic…
Police authorities on the island of Lesvos (Mytilene), which has borne the brunt of a migrant/refugee crisis in the eastern Aegean since 2015, have reportedly targeted 30 members of a…
The “strange bedfellows” Tsipras government became even more “politically peculiar” on Tuesday with a mini Cabinet reshuffle that sees a former New Democracy minister and MP appointed as the deputy minister for…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Roughly 22 percent of Cosco Ports revenues come from its Piraeus-based subsidiary PCT, which manages pier II and pier III at within the port of Piraeus,…
Passenger traffic at Greece’s commercial airports increased by 10.1 percent (yoy) in the first seven months of the year, benefitting primarily from overseas traffic.
According to data released on Monday…
Convicted “17N” arch-assassin Dimitris Koufodinas has been granted yet another 48-hour furlough, this time from a farm prison near the central coastal city of Volos, where he was recently transferred…
The pilot of a T-2 Hellenic Air Force training aircraft was retrieved on Tuesday morning near the southern Greek city of Sparta, according to press reports.
The two-seater aircraft was…
Two former Turkish navy commandos accused of taking part in an assassination attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are being kept in a secret and high-security location in Greece,…
Former Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem, one of the protagonists in the 2015 Greek crisis that engulfed the Eurozone, on Monday expressed optimism over Greece’s future, speaking on an Athens television…
Folli Follie on Monday announced its cooperation with Synergon Partners, a consulting group specializing in financial and corporate restructuring, while at the same time noting that Dimitris Kouvatsos has been…
The up-until-now interior minister, Panos Skourletis, has been appointed as the new secretary of ruling SYRIZA party’s central committee, a decision by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that more-or-less serves…
The death toll from a catastrophic wildfire that tore through the coastal Mati settlement in eastern Attica late last month has reached 97, after a 76-year-old man hospitalized in a…
Greece’s electricity distribution network operator, DEDDHE, on Monday said power supply to the popular Saronic Gulf island of Hydra was restored in the afternoon, after a nearly 36-hour outage that…
The head of an industrial hemp and pharmaceutical cannabis manufacturer in northern Greece assessed recently that new investments in the sector will reach 255 million euros until 2019 for new…
By G. Hatzilidis
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A new high-end resort at the Loutra Eleftheron site in the northern port city of Kavala is being built by the Harakidis group. The Elefthere Seaside…
By G. Sakkas
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Shareholders representing 95.7 percent of MIG’s share capital overwhelming approved the sale of the Hygeia health care group in Athens to Hellenic Healthcare SARL, an investment…
By A. Tsimplakis
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Major differences in per diem travel spending by holiday-makers in Greece continued to differentiate tourists from northern Europe, the US, Russia, other EU countries and neighboring…
The latest message by a top European official cautioning against any backsliding by the Greek government over agreed to reforms came on Saturday, this time issued by German Finance Minister…
The popular Saronic Gulf island of Hydra remained without electricity and water supply for much of Sunday, the last weekend in the high season tourism month of August. The interruption…
Another high-profile release of an infamous inmate in Greece, this time on health reasons, generated a firestorm of reactions and criticism on Friday, as a 39-year-old man serving felony convictions…
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis launched into his own late summer mini political “offensive” over the weekend, promising to abolish portions of controversial pension and labor reforms…
National Bank of Greece (NBG), one of the four systemic banks in the country, will proceed with a reverse split, its top management announced on Friday.
In a detailed press…
An appellate level prosecutor on Friday recommended that shipowner Vangelis Marinakis, the owner of the popular Olympiacos Piraeus football team, face felony charges of match-fixing and a misdemeanor charge of…
A light earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale was reported at 21.43 local (19.43 GMT) in a sea region northeast of the northern Aegean island of Limnos. The quake’s…
Cenergy Holdings this week expressed optimism that its subsidiary, Greece-based Corinth Pipeworks, will not be substantially affected by US sanctions on a variety of EU products, following a relevant probe…
A Greek-owned tanker turned up on Friday after disappearing for week off west Africa, with the “Pantelena” finally located while sailing west of Congo. According to reports out of the…
A total of 132 archaeological sites and museums around Greece will remain open on Sunday evening and heading into midnight to allow visitors a view of the last full moon…
The state budget recorded a primary budget surplus of 2.046 billion euros over the Jan-Jul 2018, up from a target of 929 million euros, and down from a 3.024-billion-euro surplus…
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras continued his late summer “political offensive” from another island on Friday, this time from the central Cyclades isle of Syros, speaking on the occasion of…
Israeli choreographer Orly Portal will present her work “The Rite of Spring”, set to the music of Farid El-Atrache, for the first time in Greece on Wednesday (Aug. 29), during…
