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Poor night in Europe for the Greeks
Thursday was a difficult day for Greek teams in Europe, with Olympiakos dropping two points at home to Rangers, while PAOK and Panathinaikos lost on the road.
‘Israel feels it is the right time to strike Iran’
“What I fear is that if there is such an attack, it will again create retaliation from Iran and then the war will continue,” Ambassador (ret.) Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, the former acting NATO secretary-general, tells Kathimerini in an interview.
Two arrested in major drug bust
Authorities have arrested two individuals suspected of being part of a criminal organization involved in the large-scale storage and export of illegal drugs, including MDMA and methamphetamine.
ATHEX: Benchmark ends virtually unchanged
The rising sequence of five sessions came to an end for the benchmark of the Greek bourse on Thursday.
Political parallels
It is fair to say that most, if not all of us are following the current SYRIZA saga with some interest. Some of us are more interested than others either because we support or oppose the party, others are interested in the personalities involved; in any case the interest is high.
Greece braces for rain and temperature drop
Greece is set to experience a significant change in weather next week, according to meteorologist Thodoris Kolydas, director of the Hellenic Meteorological Service (EMY).
Teen arrested for arson attack on police car
A 17-year-old has been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a police patrol car in Aetolia, central Greece.
Erdogan tells Macron that Turkey continues to seek EU membership
Turkey is acting with a strategic perspective towards full EU membership, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his French counterpart on Thursday.
Nothing will be the same as before
Wednesday did not dawn with the results of yet another US election contest. No. It dawned with the triumph and absolute hegemony of a charismatic populist political leader.
Polakis claims evidence proves Kasselakis submitted inaccurate wealth declarations
Pavlos Polakis, SYRIZA MP and candidate for the party leadership, claimed on Thursday to have evidence that former party president Stefanos Kasselakis submitted inaccurate wealth declarations to the party.
The antibodies of democracy
The painful lesson of the US election is that no popular discontent, no matter how regressive it may seem, no matter how violently expressed, should simply be dismissed as “extreme.”
From Parisian walls to abstract waters
In the quiet expanse of the Athens Municipal Gallery, painter Giannis Fokas presents “Works 1985-2024,” an exhibit offering a journey through nearly four decades of his evolving, powerful abstractions.
Out-of-court mechanism gains ground
Debts settled via the out-of-court mechanism reached 8.5 billion euros by end-October, recording an increase of 129.73% within a year and bringing the total number of successful settlements to 25,551.
German-speaking house buyers boost Greek realty market
The German-speaking countries are developing into one of the most dynamic markets for the acquisition of houses.
WWF warns fires destroy more than tall trees
Greece’s annual forest fires have again ignited a debate over the true scale of devastation. WWF Hellas has challenged official claims that damage was limited to smaller areas of mature forest, arguing that total burned land this season aligns with averages of the past 20 years – reaching nearly 50,000 hectares.
Six apartments sustained damage from Athens blast, municipal authorities report
The Athens municipal technical agency has released a damage report following the October 31 explosion in an apartment in the Ampelokipi area.
Man found dead in ravine outside Athens
A man was found dead in a ravine in Malakasa, northeast of Athens, on Thursday.
Voters to elites: Do you see me now?
We have entered a new political era. For the past 40 years or so, we lived in the information age.
Thessaloniki’s long overdue Holocaust museum and its importance for the city and Greece
Leon Saltiel joins Thanos Davelis to break down what the building of Thessaloniki's Holocaust museum means for the Jewish community of the city and of Greece, why it has taken so long, and what role this museum can play in combating worrying trends across Europe of anti-semitism, Holocaust denial, and the rise of the far-right.