A mayor from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was arrested late on Wednesday after prosecutors accused him of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), banned as a terrorist group in Turkey.

An explosion, suspected to have been caused by a gas leak, occurred early Thursday afternoon at an apartment in Athens’ Ambelokipi inner district, leaving one man dead and one woman injured, according to early reports. 

Hundreds of seasonal firefighters have gathered outside the Civil Protection Ministry, demanding permanent positions as their contracts expire following a grueling wildfire season.

Movie theaters across the country are offering 2-euro tickets on Thursday in celebration of the great art of cinema and of the film theater itself.

Work is feverishly under way for Friday’s opening of a much-anticipated new museum, dedicated to one of Greece’s greatest poets, Nobel Laureate Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996).

Athens International Airport (AIA) showed a significant increase in its fundamentals in the January-September period.

First scene: Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni, wearing black sunglasses, arrives in front of the Evelpidon courthouse. “I ask you to respect my privacy. I have two 3-year-old children, I am only here to shake their hands,” she says.

Originally slated to begin in the summer, the trial against 11 former MPs of the far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party was postponed again on Thursday after party chief Vassilis Stingas failed to show up in court, citing obligations in Parliament.

Athens and Ankara are intensifying joint diplomatic efforts to secure Greek and Turkish candidates for two top posts at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday confirmed the government’s decision to institute further rises to Greece’s minimum wage, bringing it up to 950 euros by 2027, during a meeting with the Cabinet on Thursday.

Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis as we look ahead at the upcoming meeting between Greece and Turkey's foreign ministers in Athens on November 8th, breaking down what to expect from Athens and Ankara, how the US elections could impact this process, and what role the EU can play.

The driest October in the past 15 years is coming to a close on Thursday, with November bringing hopes of scattered showers in some parts of the country.

The two prosecutors who decided last week to remove the protective status of two key witnesses in the Novartis case said that there was no indication that they had been the subject of intimidation or retaliation. 

A tipoff from the World Anti-Doping Agency put Greek narcotics investigators on the trail of a champion bodybuilder who is suspected of running a racket selling illegal anabolic steroids.

In a landmark move, Greece is set to establish the Higher School of Performing Arts (ASPET) for the first time. The initiative comes 17 years after a previous attempt in 2007 failed due to opposition from higher education institutions.

Five young men aged between 17 and 21 years old were ambushed and robbed during what they believed was a date with two women they had met online. 

The website of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) was knocked out from October 25 through the entire long holiday weekend and is still experiencing problems after an attack by hackers.

Legislation establishing Greece’s first state-run university-level school for the performing arts will be presented at a cabinet meeting on Thursday before being put to public consultation and then heading to Parliament for ratification.

A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog has urged the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers out of a UN-controlled buffer zone where they have been stranded in tents for months.

A bill ratifying International Monetary Fund quota increases for member-countries was approved in the Greek Parliament’s Standing Committee on Economic Affairs on Tuesday, and was tabled in the plenary on Wednesday.