Passenger traffic levels soared at airports throughout the first 11 months of 2024, setting a new record before the end of the year, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Civil Aviation Authority.

A 26-year-old Afghan man was arrested on Christmas Day for smuggling migrants into Greece, authorities reported on Thursday.

Like all benefits, the one for unemployed people fulfills its purpose more effectively when it is not handed out horizontally, but is attached to certain objective criteria. 

An elderly couple needed to be rescued from its vehicle by a fire brigade crew after swerving off track and ending up in an irrigation ditch in the wider area of Arta, northwestern Greece, on Thursday. 

The fire service reportedly received hundreds of calls related to problems caused by the heavy rainfall that has been hitting Attica since Wednesday.

Beneath the azure waves of the Aegean Sea, researchers are delving into the mysteries of Kolumbo, an underwater volcano near Santorini.

Police have arrested seven individuals in connection with an incident that took place on Christmas night near the train station in Marousi, northern Athens.

The Hellenic Air Force plans to acquire weapons worth at least €1 bln to equip the upgraded F-16 Viper, older versions of the fighter jet, and the F-35s that Greece is set to receive by the end of the decade.

Turkey’s central bank lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 47.5% on Thursday, carrying out its first rate cut in nearly two years as it tries to control soaring inflation.

Turkish President Erdogan met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Thursday.

A total of 22 new advanced-level high schools, equally divided between junior and senior high schools, all donated by the Onassis Foundation, a public benefit foundation, will be established in parts of the country facing social and economic challenges. 

Choosing an energy provider has become a headache for consumers.

Winter weather has disrupted traffic in several areas of southern and western Greece on Thursday.

Electric car breakdowns, partly blamed by Greek traffic police for a roughly 5-kilometer traffic jam near the Parnassos ski resort on Christmas Day, have sparked questions about whether freezing temperatures can impair EV performance.

Traffic police have been warning drivers in areas with ice and snow to use snow chains, after long traffic jams were reported near some ski resorts because of cars becoming stuck on the roads.

The Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus, home court of the Olympiacos basketball team, was flooded on Thursday due to heavy rainfall in the Attica region.

Cyprus is once again making headline news as Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides becomes the first leader in the region to appoint a special representative – Ambassador Thessalia Salina Shambos – for religious freedoms and the protection of minorities in the Middle East.  The move, welcomed in Washington, comes as new concerns about religious and ethnic […]

A boat carrying more than 40 undocumented migrants was located off the coast of Samos in the eastern Aegean early on Thursday morning, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported.

India fought back with four late wickets to leave Australia on 311 for six on day one of the fourth test on Thursday after teen debutant Sam Konstas had lit up the Melbourne Cricket Ground with a thrilling knock in the morning.

A prosecutor in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, filed serious criminal charges on Thursday against a 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing his girlfriend’s father in the leg during a verbal altercation.