Fresh cases of goat plague, also known as Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), have been detected in the Vartholomio area of Ilia, southern Greece, according to reports on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to meet Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netantayu in New York this month, according to well-informed sources, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. 

Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Tuesday night in the Nea Filadelfia district of Athens.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis visited the 2nd Primary School of Glyfada, located south of Athens, on Wednesday for the traditional blessing ceremony marking the official start of the school year.

Josh Hickey recounts a funny scene that played out in the first year of the Hydra Book Club, a pop-up bookstore he established in 2021 on the first floor of the Hydra Historical Archive and Museum, featuring Greek and foreign books, new and used, on the island. It concerned a visit by Dakis Joannou, the renowned Cypriot art collector who owns two of the loveliest houses in the Saronic island’s main town and put Hydra on the international contemporary art map with the annual exhibition of top-flight artists at a converted slaughterhouse.

Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss Turkey’s recent commissioning of its first German-built T-214 submarine, look into the discussions this has sparked in Athens, and explore how Greece plans to position itself as a key player at sea in the coming years.

A magnitude 4 earthquake hit Feneos in the Corinth prefecture of the Peloponnese on Wednesday morning.

One in 10 children aged up to 3 years who arrive at the outpatient clinics of the National Health System (ESY) hospitals with injuries are victims of abuse.

The excitement accompanying the start of new school which this year starts on Wednesday is somewhat tempered by the permanent tug-of-war between the leadership of the Ministry of Education on the one hand, and the teachers and their trade union representatives on the other over lower wages and departmental mergers.

Minister of Environment and Energy Thodoros Skylakakis emphasized during his speech at the MEFED 2024 Conference in Thessaloniki on Monday that as the impacts of the climate crisis become more aggressive, there will be greater convergence between energy and environmental policies.

Greece’s inflation rose 3% in August year-on-year, compared to 2.7% in July and 2.7% in August 2023, according to data published on Tuesday by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT)

The Monitoring Committee on the renowned Cypriot white cheese, halloumi, will convene for its first meeting in the last week of September.

Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras emphasized on Tuesday that over 170 major dam projects are operational in Greece, serving as key pillars for water management safety, agricultural production, water supply, energy generation and flood protection.

The employment climate is expected to be clearly improved in Greece for the last quarter of 2024 according to the latest ManpowerGroup Hiring Outlook Survey.

Greece convincingly saw off Ireland with goals from Ioannidis and Tzolis.

The 88th Thessaloniki International Fair got off to a strong start on Saturday.

Greek stocks continued their decline on Tuesday, but with the benchmark of the market containing its losses somewhat.

The new group exhibition of the NEON Organization for Culture and Development, “Space of Togetherness” at the Drama School of the National Theater in Athens, recounts stories largely concerning immigration, war, and climate change, as befits a location with an instructional mission.

Mario Draghi’s warnings about the future of the European Union if it does not proceed with radical solutions for its economy are more than clear. 

Passengers on a bus in the northern Athenian suburb of Galatsi were trapped for an extended time on Tuesday due to heavy flooding from storm Atena.