A high-level prosecutor intervened in the case of the malnourished, sick and abandoned white tiger cub following a request by an animal welfare federation. Τhe estimated 4-month-old female cub was found abandoned under a garbage bin outside the Attica Zoo Park in eastern Athens. The white tiger cub was examined …

The “2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture” program kicks off with a weekend of special opening events, at the coastal front of Elefsina, west Attica, on Saturday and sunday, February 4-5, 2023. The opening events will he held throughout the weekend with a program of exhibitions, concerts, DJ parties and …

Greece’s main opposition party SYRIZA announced on Tuesdaythat will no longer participate in Parliament voting with only one exception. At a press conference, leader Alexis Tsipras demanded the dissolution of the Parliament and immediate declaration of elections date, accusing the conservative New Democracy government of being “morally and politically compromised.” …

Chubby, with a red uniform, and a shaky laugh, that’s how our children have learned that Santa Claus is. But our “Santa”, the Greek Orthodox Agios Vassilis, is different and comes with his presents in the night of January 1. Our “Santa” comes from Caesaria in central Asia Minor where …

A mafia-style execution in a popular leisure area in south Athens, in front of hundreds of young and old people on Sunday night has shocked Greece. Two Albanian men, aged 41 and 44 years old, were shot dead in cold blood by an unknown person at a cafeteria in Nea …

In a large operation at “Prosfygika” area in downtown Athens, Greek police arrested a total of seventy-eight people on Tuesday. Among the arrestees was a award-winning photojournalist and member of the Foreign Press Association, Nikos Pilos. He was covering the police operation and was arrested despite showing his camera and …

Bogus “miracles” Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos gave a deadline of five days to the fraudulent priest of Agioi Isodoroi and a community of some people to abandon the chapel on Lycabettus Hill in downtown Athens and to move to a monastery. The head of the Greek Church is furious about …

Greece’s Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis dismissed reports by Turkish media claiming that a caravan of thousands of Syrian refugees is moving towards Greece and Europe. “A caravan of refugees has not yet been formed, and it has yet to be demonstrated that the efforts of those on social …

“I was training and at the last minute I wouldn’t go to a race because I didn’t have Greek citizenship.” European Javelin Champion in Munich 2022 Elina Tzengko spoke about the bitterness and the difficulties she experienced been born in Greece to Albanian parents who migrated to Greece. With a …

A tragedy on the island of Crete has called for the intervention of the public prosecutor after a 51-year-old motorcycle rider was killed by a fallen pine tree. The father of three had halted at the red traffic light in Democratias Avenue, the most central road of Heraklio, on Thursday …

Race walker Antigoni Ntrismpioti and long jumper Miltos Tentoglou won gold medals at the European Championships Munich 2022 on Tuesday. Champion of Tokyo Olympics Miltiadis (Miltos) Tentoglou broke long jump records on Tuesday. Tentoglou achieved a Championship Record of 8.52m followed by Jacob Fincham-Dukes from Britain who came second with …

A 50-year-old man lurked his 49-year-old former wife and attacked her with acid liquid. The victim suffered a serious burn trauma in her one eye and is hospitalized. It is the fourth case of violence against women in Greece in just four days. The attacked took place in Messini, western …

A wildfire broke out at a remote and difficult to access area on the island of Samothraki in northern Greece on Tuesday morning. The fire is burning in the area of Piges Vathras Prinos on the north side of the island. The forest is reportedly dense and land forces cannot …

Τhe reconstruction of the lower side of Syntagma Square in downtown Athens is nearing completion and is already accessible to the residents and the visitors of the Greek capital. The new look of the lower part of the square reportedly preserves its historical characteristics and at the same time it …

The public prosecutor in Athens investigating the helicopter incident where British national Jack Fenton found a tragic death demands the results of the toxicological tests of the victim’s blood and lifting of his mobile phone privacy. Athens District Attorney Ioakim Kasotakis is looking for important information on the causes of …

For his first visit to a European country after the brutal murder of prominent Saudi Arabian journalist and dissident, Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October 2018, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman choose Greece. Or the investment hungry Greece choose him. For four years, no European leader would accept to …

Τhe Greek state must pay compensation to the victim of a debilitating rape by a man who was in the country illegally in 2012, the Council of State ruled ον Wednesday. The victim, Myrto, as she was known with her first name, was 15 when she was brutally raped and …

A video has captured the moment when the British tourist was knocked down by the turbine blast of an airplane taking-off from the airport of Skiathos on Tuesday evening. The 61-year-old suffered brain and other injuries and was taken to the hospital of Volos on the mainland. The footage shows …

A group of robbers threw a 400-kg-heavy private safe off the balcony of an apartment building in Thessaloniki located on the sixth floor. They rushed down to the sidewalk, loaded it on their vehicle and fled the scene. The perpetrators reportedly broke into the home of a local businessman well-known …

A 79-year-old man was blown into the sea by the turbine blast of an airplane landing at the airport of the island of Skiathos. The accident where the man, a pedestrian who was walking outside the airport fence, was blown into the sea occurred Sunday noon. “Alexandros Papadiamantis” airport on …