Greece, in cooperation with Saudi Arabia, is leading the effort to evacuate and tow the Greek-owned oil tanker Sounion, which was attacked last week in the Red Sea by the Houthis, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

It appears that various criminal rackets have taken root in certain popular tourist destinations and that local authorities are in no position to deal with them effectively.

The Yemeni Houthis released new footage on Thursday showing the raid and burning of the Greek-owned tanker SOUNION in the Red Sea.

The fire service remains skeptical of the eco-militant group’s claims of responsibility for the arson attack on an egg factory in Thessaloniki, as reported by MEGA TV

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Giorgos Gerapetritis highlighted the positive agenda in GreekßTurkish relations during a speech at the informal working lunch with his European Union counterparts and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. 

An eco-militant organization calling itself the Animal Liberation Front (MAZ) claimed responsibility for the fire that broke out last week at an egg processing plant in Neochorouda, Thessaloniki.

One of the hottest names in electronic music, Indira Paganotto, is coming to Athens for a set at Bolivar Beach Bar (Poseidonos Avenue) on August 31.

The Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Georgia Adelini, on Thursday ordered a preliminary investigation into the mass fish deaths in Lake Karla and Pagasitikos Gulf in Volos, central Greece.

An 18-year-old woman in the northern city of Thessaloniki was charged with rape, following a complaint filed by a 20-year-old man earlier this week. 

Police on Thursday arrested a 28-year-old man they believe was involved in a hit-and-run accident at the island of Corfu late Wednesday night that left two 18-year-olds injured.

Tolls for passenger cars on the Attiki Odos ring road around Athens, which also connects the capital to its airport, will be cut to €2.50 from €2.80, starting on October 6.

Locals and visitors of the famous mountain village of Apeiranthos on the island of Naxos sit on the steps in an alley to watch one of the poetry evenings, PeriPoisis, organized for the second year by the newly founded bookshop of the village, “The Captain,” which operates all year round.

Greek authorities have started collecting hundreds of thousands of dead fish that poured into a tourist port in the central city of Volos this week after being displaced from their usual freshwater habitats during flooding last year.

Athletes of Greece take part in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France, on August 28, 2024.

August in Greece is expected to end with lightening storms as a cold and unstable weather forecast is expected to affect most regions of the country until Saturday, according to an emergency bulletin issued by the national weather service, EMY, on Thursday.

Greece’s foreign minister said on Thursday he had been in touch with his Saudi counterpart as part of discussions to avert any ecological disaster from a Greek flagged oil tanker stranded in the Red Sea after a Houthi militant attack last week.

A high school in western Athens was targeted in an arson attack early Thursday morning, police said. 

Every time I visit my doctor at the public hospital where he works, I feel ashamed. The computer on his desk is inferior to the laptop I carry with me, the air conditioning in his office is usually struggling to produce a coolish breeze and I have yet to understand how he, his associate, the attending, the intern and the nurse fit in such a small space.

Referring to the cost-of-living crisis, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the problem of high prices is an “ongoing battle” and that things will gradually improve.

Is there an effort afoot to revive the F-35 deal with Turkey? The issue popped up in a report in the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, and has raised questions about whether this is being seriously considered - despite the issue of the Russian S-400s remaining unresolved -  or if it is wishful thinking on the part of Ankara.