An appeals court has unanimously acquitted the daughter of a 49-year-old taxi driver who was murdered in Thessaloniki nearly five years ago, clearing her of charges of being an accomplice to her mother in the crime.

Attention is turning to the upcoming summer season, with Greece claiming its own share of the huge Chinese market.

All flights between Athens International Airport and Heathrow on Friday have been cancelled after a huge fire at a substation near the London airport knocked out its power, stranding passengers around the world and angering airlines who questioned how such crucial infrastructure could fail.

Moody’s recently upgraded Greece to investment grade, becoming the last major ratings agency to do so since Greece emerged from its financial crisis in the 2010s. Yiannis Mouzakis, the co-founder and editor of Macropolis.gr, joins Thanos Davelis to break down what this decision means for Greece’s economy.

Turkish stocks and bonds tumbled for a third straight day on Friday, triggering two market-wide circuit breakers on Borsa Istanbul, as the lira, equities, and bonds extended losses following the detention of President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival on Wednesday.

The stunning first-round election of Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry as the next International Olympic Committee president made her the first female and first African to lead the IOC but more importantly ensured continuity once Thomas Bach departs in June.

Greece has charged more than 20 people and arrested five managers and employees at the state town planning service on the tourist island of Rhodes, for violations ranging from breach of duty to bribery and document forgery, police said on Thursday.

What gives people the strength to keep fighting for something better when life repeatedly knocks them to their knees? How can they resist the urge to ask, “Why me?” and take a perceived curse as a blessing? Are love and faith the answer, or is this a romantic and naive notion?

Henri Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Cohen chair in international relations at Lehigh University, joins Thanos Davelis to look into Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest, a move many see as bringing Turkey closer to endless Erdogan rule.

Greece’s former leftist prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has strongly criticized the conservative government’s foreign policy, urging an immediate shift in strategy to protect the country’s sovereign rights and restore its position as a pillar of peace and stability in the region.

Four highly trained pediatric specialists who returned to Greece after prestigious medical careers in the US say they now regret their decision.

The trial of Dimitris Lignadis, the former artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, has been postponed to November 10, at the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal in Athens.

The procedure for property owners who did not collect rent from tenants last year has changed.

Stavros Kalafatis, a New Democracy MP from Thessaloniki in northern Greece, has been appointed deputy minister for research and innovation at the Ministry of Development, it was announced on Friday. He will replace Aristos Doxiadis, who resigned just over a day after joining the government.

A museum that opened this week in Cyprus showcases priceless early Christian artworks, many of which were recovered after being stolen from churches in the north of the war-split island.

Greece has extended by a year a visa scheme for Turkish nationals wishing to visit 12 islands in the Aegean Sea for up to a week, diplomatic sources said, continuing a program that represented a slight thaw in often fractious ties between the neighbors.

Turkey’s government criticized a call from the main opposition leader for people to take to the streets to protest what they say is the undemocratic detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, as thousands demonstrated across the country.

A 4.1-magnitude tremor struck the sea area between Santorini and Amorgos in the Cyclades island complex on Friday, according to the Athens Geodynamic Institute, Greece’s leading authority on earthquake analysis. No injuries or damage were reported.

International Olympic Committee’s newly-elected President Kirsty Coventry wants to sit down with United States President Donald Trump to make sure the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics are successful, she said on Thursday.

“Orthodox Christians in Greece are being persecuted,” declared Nikolaos Papadopoulos, a member of the far-right Niki party, in response to what he described as “poetic expression,” namely the vandalism of works of art in the National Gallery which he considered an insult to the Orthodox faith.