Emmanouil Karalis, pole vault bronze medal winner at Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has been selected as Greece’s closing ceremony flag bearer.

Firefighters are working to control a wildfire that erupted in a forested rural area in Metaxada, Messinia, in the Peloponnese.

A 32-year-old Greek man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place on July 13 outside the Panathinaikos soccer stadium on Alexandras Avenue.

A wildfire broke out on Saturday near the village of Chionochori in Serres, in Greece’s Macedonia region.

The toxicological tests and autopsy results are likely to show the actual cause of death on Thursday of the 48-year-old in Ilia, southern Greece, who, according to medics at the Ilia General Hospital where he was treated, was probably bitten by a spider.

Inflation edged higher in July, ending a run of decreasing rates. The Consumer Price Index published Friday by the Hellenic Statistics Authority grew 2.7% year-on-year, up from 2.3% in June.

The European Central Bank’s cautious monetary policy will be partly responsible for the eurozone’s weak economic growth over the next year or two, UK-based research firm Capital Economics maintains.

Many signs point to the clear urgency of the Middle East situation, one of which is the concentration of strong naval forces – along with Israeli forces – deployed all the way along the nation’s coastline to guard the country’s airspace and deter potential maritime threats.

Greece's Dauren Kurugliev, in red, faces San Marino's Myles Nazem Amine in the men's freestyle 86kg bronze medal wrestling match at the Champ-de-Mars Arena during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, on Friday.

More than 12,500 inspections have been conducted on beach concessions for violations of concession terms, 2,500 in the last week alone. Authorities have shut down 36 businesses, 14 in the past week.

Imports of natural gas from Russia reached an all-time high energy equivalent of 3.69 terawatt-hours in July, at the expense of liquefied natural gas (LNG), which was supposed to lessen our dependence on Russian gas.

The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said government authorities in ethnically divided Cyprus have rounded up dozens of migrants and pushed them back inside a UN-controlled buffer zone that they crossed to seek asylum.

The new airport at Kastelli, near Iraklio on the island of Crete, is under construction and will be completed in February 2027.

A draft bill ending stamp duty in more than 600 transactions is now at the public consultation stage.

Researchers have long argued that regions deep in the Earth’s oceans may harbor sites from which all terrestrial life sprung. In the Atlantic, they gave the name “Lost City” to a jagged landscape of eerie spires under which they proposed that the life-preceding chemistry may have churned.

Greece is expected to be third among European countries in attracting globally mobile millionaires in 2024, behind Italy and Switzerland and ahead of Portugal, British investment migration consultancy Henley & Partners said.

Mobile banking users in Greece have reached 6.2 million, more than users of internet banking through PCs, which number 3.6 million.

The Athens Stock Exchange closed only marginally higher and far from the intraday high Friday. In that, it followed the general caution displayed by European markets and Wall Street.

Three Turkish nationals involved in the maintenance work of a mobile phone antenna in Rhodes were released on Friday, after being arrested for not having the necessary permits. 

An association of scientists says that wind parks, whose construction has often run into local opposition, actually help local forests.