Οne of two men who went missing on Saturday in the sea region of Possidi, Halkidiki, was found and rescued 14 nautical miles off the area he went into the water. 30-year-old Ivan managed to survive 20 hours in rough sea thanks to a children’s ball he found randomly floating …

A First Instance Court in Athens partially accepted on Thursday the issuance of a temporary order that prohibits power companies to proceed with consumers’ power outage in case of not payment of the adjustment clause. The temporary order was requested by Greece’s consumers organizations INKA and EKPOIZO. The Multi-Member Court …

Alerted by the citizens’ anger over the energy prices and the increasing cost of living the conservative government is promising to come up with a new national support plan for the benefit of households and businesses. The plan is expected to be implemented in June. The national plan will be …

Greeks rushed to public power company on Easter Wednesday to arrange payment settlements for unpaid bills and avoid being completely cut off from the electricity supply, as providers keep issuing disconnections orders and push for their implementation. With the wholesale price among the highest in Europe and a government that …

A 30-year-old hotelier on the island of Rhodes started a hunger-strike outside the Public Power Company due to exorbitant electricity bills that she is not able to pay or to make an installement-settlement. Speaking to local newspaper rodiaki, the woman who has a small hotel in the center of the …

The Culture Ministry has announced plans to repeal a decision accepting a donation from a private foundation that has recently become the subject of controversy following a high-profile gang-rape case in the northern port city of Thessaloniki. The donation was aiming to revamp the museum on the island of Delos. …

Local authorities describe the pandemic situation on the island of Lesvos as “extremely bad” as about 70 cases of coronavirus infections are being confirmed every day.”There are thoughts of a mini lockdown,” says the vice governor of the island in the eastern Aegean Sea. Particularly affected are teachers and students …

Former armed forces chief and ex Defense Minister under SYRIZA, Evangelos Apostolakis, has turned down the post of heading Greece’s new Civil Protection Ministry following a cabinet reshuffle announced on Tuesday, media report early afternoon. Apostolakis’ appointment triggered an outrage with SYRIZA that criticized the conservative Prime Minister that he …

A man swam for over five hours in rough sea to get help for his partner. The 45-year-old had previously managed to get his 39-yea-old girl friend in the safety of a beach cave after their boat overturned off the south coast of Heraklio, Crete, over the weekend. The couple …

A young man pushed his girl friend into death over a rocky slope of 30 meters on the island of Folegandros and ran away. He was arrested a day later. He confessed claiming that “the phase was foiled, it was the bad time.” The homicide, in fact another femicide in …

People who can prove they have suffered serious injury or side effects from a vaccine can claim compensation from the State, Greece’s top administrative court the Council of State said on Monday. The Court ruled in favor of a mother who claimed and won compensation for her daughter’s death after …

Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Costis Hatzidakis celebrated his birthday with a cake decorated in such a controversial way that Greeks initially thought it was the product of a photoshop by some social media troll. The cake was decorated with the sugar paste logos of the public companies Hatzidakis …

Τhe Greek Public Power Corporation (PPC/DEH) announced the signing of contracts for the securitization of arrears with PPC expecting to drain up to 325 million euros from the market. The program, covered by contract claims has a duration of 5 years, including a two-year revolving period, and a three-year period …

Greece’s grid operator DEDIE and Public Power Corporation PPC said that they will compensate customers with discounts on the bills due to power outages caused by the snow weather. Approximately 1,000 households are still without electricity in the northern suburbs of Athens on Saturday, following the snow falls on Monday …

What does a medical professional do when his wife and in-laws contract the disease at the center of a months-long pandemic? Gabriel Tachtatzoglou, a critical care nurse, did not feel good about the treatment options available in Greece’s second-largest city when his wife, both her parents and her brother came …

A 61-year-old man with heavy disabilities was found crying, hugging his 90-year-old mother in a Kavala neighborhood. The mother had died two days earlier. Both were diagnosed positive to Covid-19 and were advised to quarantine at home by the National Health Care Organization EODY. A tragic incident in Kavala, northern …

Alexia Evert, deputy mayor of Athens, member of conservative ruling party New Democracy and offspring of a well-known politicians’ family, called the members of Communist KKE “cockroaches and rodents.” Today, the mayor of Athens Costas Bakoyannis asked her resignation. Evert commented on social media under a picture of KKE members …

Greek Air Force deployed a Super Puma helicopter to rescue a British climber from a gorge on the island of Samothrace. The man was hiking with a friend when he fell into the rocks of the gorge, in a depth of some 10 meters. He remained trapped for two days, …

Greece’s iconic singer Haris Alexiou announced that she will stop performing live as well as doing recordings because her voice does not allow her to do so. In a confession that shocked her fans in and outside Greece and her colleagues, Alexiou bids farewell to singing as her “voice does …

The earthquake that stroke off the island of Crete with a magnitude of 6 R on Saturday afternoon caused a mini tsunami, Greek seismologists and international scientists confirmed later on the day. The slight change of the sea level was observed by local residents as withdrawal and return of the …