A 19-year-old man was stabbed and killed and two others were injured in an attack by five individuals in the early morning hours of Tuesday in Thessaloniki. Police attributes the assault to rival soccer fan clubs, media report. A 19-year-old victim was stabbed in the inner upper thigh and he …

A man is carrying a little girl on his back on a snowed road in the middle of the night. The man is a policeman and the girl a patient who needs to be operated in a hospital early Tuesday morning. The picture was shot at half an hour after …

Dozens of people and vehicles remain stranded on Attiki Odos ring road of Athens still early Tuesday afternoon, as Army, Fire Bridges and Police try to evacuate them. After having been trapped in a car struck in snow for over 26 hours, five people suffered hypothermia and were taken to …

The head of the Athens Prosecutor’s Office has ordered an investigation on Monday evening into the failures of Attiki Odos highway ring road of Greek capital Athens as hundreds of motorists remain stranded in the snow since the morning. For a distance to cover in 20 minutes they need over …

Pandemic and mental health – 21% of Greeks do not leave home at all for fun or socializing, a new nationwide survey has found. The mental health and sociability of Greeks is burdened by the pandemic, according to a new nationwide survey by Focus Bari and YouGov. Two years after …

Greece’s Culture Ministry launched an investigation Friday following the online release of a short film showing two men having sex at the ancient Acropolis in Athens. The 36-minute movie, titled “Departhenon*,” was released on Dec. 21 but came to the attention of authorities this week. The Culture Ministry said it …

Greeks spent the second day of 2022 new year with small social gatherings, a walk in the sun and long queues outside pharmacies, private diagnostic centers and public facilities for a Covid-test. The first week of the new year started again with long queues outside diagnostic centers, with dozens of …

The Greek Ombudsman investigated the written exams process on Naturalization in Greece after several candidates abandoned the two lengthy tests in November. The independent authority did not find any evidence that the process was in any way compromized, however, it recommended improvement as the exams caused increased stress to candidates …

Pope Francis returned to the Greek island of Lesvos on Sunday to offer comfort to migrants at a refugee camp and blast what he said was Europe’s indifference and self-interest “that condemns to death those on the fringes.” “Please, let us stop this shipwreck of civilization!” Francis said at the …

Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday. “Pope, you are a heretic!” the priest shouted three times before police intervened and took him away. The Pope had arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, evidence of the lingering distrust between …

A baby girl in a stroller was abandoned in the courtyard of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens on Sunday morning. A resident of the Exarchia district was walking her dogs when she spotted the baby alone behind the palm trees. The woman informed the museum guard and he alerted …

A new video from the tragic incident where an 8-year-old Roma girl was crashed by a sliding factory door in Keratsini shows a shocking behavior by 6 to 7 people towards a girl dying in front of their eyes. Footage from security camera broadcast by Star TV on Thursday evening …

An 8-year-old Roma girl found a tragic death when its body was crashed by an electric factory door in Keratsini suburb of Piraeus on Wednesday, November 17. Serious questions arise from the fact that the girl’s body was crashed twice by the metal door and its body remained there for …

Turkish police has launched a legal probe into dozens of social media users for allegedly spreading the rumor that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has died. A relevant hashtag “he is apparently dead” #olmus in Turkish has been trending on Twitter since Wednesday morning bringing the fragile Turkish Lira into turbulence. …

Three years after the brutal killing of LGBT activist Zak Kostopoulos, the trial finally began on Wednesday morning in Athens. Two businessmen and four police officers are being accused of fatal bodily harm of the 33-year-old Zak who was brutally beaten and died on a sidewalk in downtown Athens. The …

The public bus trapped under a bridge on the old Poseidonos Avenue in Athens Riviera remains stuck in the flood still 27 hours after the incident on Thursday noon. The water height is hardly down and thus only due to workers pumping water. A prosecutor ordered an investigation on Friday …

After the unprecedented evacuation of students from a flooded school in western Athens, authorities decided to close all schools in region of Attica including Athens, Piraeus and suburbs on Friday, October 15, 2021, as stormy weather front Ballos is forecast to intensify. Afternoon and evening schools in the same areas …

Footprints of pre-humans in fossilised beach sediments at Trachilos on the Greek island of Crete have now been dated by to 6.05 million years ago, the oldest known footprints of pre-humans. The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the Mediterranean island of Crete and are at least six …

A 2-year-old toddler was left in a kindergarten school for over five hours in the seaside resort of Varkiza in south-eastern Athens. The girl’s parents filed a lawsuit against those in charge of the kindergarten, including the bus driver and those monitoring the children transfer. The child is thought to …

With Greek flags, religious symbols and chanting “Orthodoxy or Death” thousands of anti-vaxxers gathered at outside the Greek Parliament at Syntagma square on Sunday evening, in the first gathering of this kind after the summer vacations. The   crowd, some 7,500 people, was a heterogeneous crowd of religious fanatics, extreme far-rights, …