Operations at airports across Greece were put on hold for safety reasons on Sunday, the country’s civil aviation authority (HCAA) said, with the suspension partly lifted in the early afternoon Greek state TV said unspecified issues affecting radio frequencies prompted the suspensions. HCAA said there had been problems at the main communications center for air … Read more
Hundreds of farmers block parts of the Athens-Thessaloniki highway in protest over the delayed payments. Published On 1 Dec 20251 Dec 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Greek farmers have clashed with police during protests in central and northern regions over the delayed payment of European Union subsidies. Police used tear … Read more
The case file names 15 MPs — 13 from the ruling New Democracy (ND), and one each from the opposition Pasok and Syriza parties — alongside regional officials and former agency executives. Brazen conversations Prosecutors requested wiretaps on the phones of OPEKEPE officials, among others, and the case file includes dozens of startlingly brazen conversations. These … Read more
Estonia redirects maritime traffic to prevent future incidents after Russia’s detention of the Green Admire oil tanker. Russia has detained a Greek oil tanker sailing under the Liberian flag as it left the Estonian port of Sillamae on a previously agreed route through Russian waters, the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. In a statement … Read more
Revolutionary Class Struggle asserts attacks on railway operator and a ministry dedicated to ‘the Palestinian people’. Greek police say they are investigating claims by an unknown hardline group that it was responsible for a couple of bomb blasts that rocked Athens over the past year. A police spokeswoman told Greek media on Monday that the … Read more
Six children died in the disaster, while the police found 36 survivors alive on Samos and three people were rescued. Greece’s coast guard has found the bodies of eight migrants, including six children, who drowned off the island of Samos, authorities said, in the second migrant shipwreck in the Aegean Sea this month. Greek police … Read more
Michael Mosley had set off on a walk in a mountainous area in Greece on Wednesday afternoon. A days-long search for missing British television presenter Michael Mosley has led to the recovery of a body on a Greek island, according to local authorities. A police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of an … Read more
At least five people killed in attack, a navy spokesperson was quoted as saying by Ukrainska Pravda media outlet. Several people have been killed in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s port city of Odesa, according to a spokesperson for Ukraine’s navy. The attack came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was giving a tour of the … Read more
Scores of brightly coloured tractors have been parked outside Greece’s parliament, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs protested in Athens. “Without us, you don’t eat,” one banner at Tuesday’s rally said. Some farmers carried mock coffins and funeral garlands as symbols of their plight. The farmers, whose demands are similar … Read more
Thousands of Greek students rallied in Athens and other cities on Thursday to protest against planned education reforms that would allow the introduction of private universities in the country. The conservative government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who won a second term last year, is expected to submit a bill to parliament this month that would permit … Read more