Slowly, almost imperceptibly at first, a smile spreads across the little girl’s face. Blinking behind her glasses, she inches her wheelchair forward and gently reaches out to stroke the tiny gray horse.

As silently as they had arrived, three teenagers slipped away following a member of a smuggling gang, hardly older than themselves, through the shadowed-filled station in the northeastern Italian city of Trieste one cold winter evening.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks focused on a critical aspect of establishing stability in Syria: clashes in the north of the country between US-backed Kurdish forces and Turkey-backed rebels.

Greece’s public health experts are sounding alarms about future pandemic threats and the growing issue of antibiotic resistance.

The taxes that individuals and businesses must pay during December amount to 5.5 billion euros.

The rapidly evolving crisis in Syria will take center stage at the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council on Monday, with Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis representing Athens.

Pablo Larrain’s much-anticipated biopic on Maria Callas, which opened at Greek theaters earlier this month, acquaints the public with lesser-known aspects of the great opera diva’s life.

One of the sweetest business marriages has now become a reality, with the announcement on Thursday of the completion of the acquisition of the Lavdas candy factory by the ION chocolate industry.

The ongoing legal battle between the Republic of Cyprus and Greek contractor Intrakat over the Paphos-Polis highway project is continuing.

Before this year, Tobias Kammann, a German container ship captain, had only once sailed around the southern tip of Africa, and the lack of other vessels in the little-trafficked waters made him feel very much alone.

The House of Representatives in Cyprus voted on Thursday in favor of a bill submitted by the island’s Ministry of Education about the introduction of strict provisions regarding the establishment and operation of branches of foreign universities in Cyprus.

PAOK and Panathinaikos scored important European wins on Thursday and are close to qualifying.

The largely expected European Central Bank rate cut by 25 basis points and the mild rise of European stocks led Athinon Avenue to a day of gains.

European Union ministers on Thursday agreed to let Bulgaria and Romania fully integrate into Europe’s ID-check-free travel zone, known as the Schengen area, by lifting land border controls from next year, the EU’s Hungarian presidency said.

Interest rates for mortgage holders will unfreeze and head south based on ECB decisions.

Najem al-Moussa was delighted when news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow first beamed from the television in his tiny Athens apartment.

Turkey’s emergence as a key player in developments in Syria, which led to the collapse of Bashar al-Assad and the last “Ba’athist” regime in the Arab world, has caused a good deal of irritation and concern in Athens.