Outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach was named honorary president for life on Wednesday, with the German due to step down in June after 12 years in charge.

The deputy director of the Rhodes urban planning office, along with four employees and two private engineers, is among those arrested for their alleged involvement in a corruption network.

A shortage of bus drivers is limiting the number of public transport buses serving the wider Athens area on a daily basis to 1,050 from, 1,290, according to recent data released by OASA, the Athens Urban Transport Organisation. 

One of Greece’s most promising emerging artists, Zisis Bliatkas, presents his second solo exhibition, “Forecasting: Days as Surfaces,” at the Rebecca Camhi Gallery (9 Leonidou) from March 19 to May 23

A heated political confrontation erupted in Parliament on Wednesday over former minister Christos Triantopoulos’ decision to waive his parliamentary immunity and request that a parliamentary committee refer him directly for trial.

The leader of the far-right Niki party has taken legal action in an Athens court to demand the removal of a video projection from the National Gallery, denouncing it as “obscene material.”

The European Union on Wednesday announced a new drive to break its security dependency on the United States, with a focus on buying more defense equipment in Europe rather than from suppliers across the Atlantic.

Serbia’s parliament formally accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister Milos Vucevic on Wednesday, triggering a 30-day deadline for the formation of a new government or the calling of a snap election.

Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had basked in the glow of what he often jokingly dubbed his political miracle — the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party in not one, but three local elections.

Turkish main opposition leader said President Tayyip Erdogan had strayed from democracy speaking after the detention of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul's mayor and Erdogan's main political rival.

Germany sees the detention of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival as “a serious setback,” a position that will be communicated in the appropriate manner with Berlin’s Turkish partners, said a foreign ministry spokesperson.

Protesters near Istanbul’s main police headquarters on Wednesday said the detention of President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival and the city’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was a blow to Turkish democracy.

Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr is one of the front runners to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee but the Spaniard knows the unpredictability of the election by elimination that will take place on Thursday.

The Council of Europe said on Wednesday it “strongly condemned” the detention of Istanbul Mayor and President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Ekrem Imamoglu, as a move against the will of the people.

Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor’s chief correspondent based in Paris and covering major stories on Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa, joins Thanos Davelis to break down what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s new willingness to engage with Kurdish leaders means for the peace process with the country’s Kurds and the PKK.

Istanbul Mayor and President Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival, Ekrem Imamoglu, said in his first comments following his detention on Wednesday that Turkish people would give the necessary response to “lies, plots and traps” against him.

Turkey’s justice minister said on Wednesday that linking President Tayyip Erdogan to ongoing legal moves including the detention of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s mayor and Erdogan’s main political rival, amounted to overstepping and insolence.

The slow-burn race for the most powerful job in world sport roared into life on Wednesday, set against the dazzling backdrop of the Ionian Sea, where the seven contenders for the International Olympic Committee presidency made their final moves ahead of a vote that will shape the sporting landscape for the next decade.

Nestled amidst the verdant landscapes north of Athens, the former royal estate of Tatoi is undergoing a meticulous restoration, breathing new life into its historic structures.

The president of the Tempe Victims’ Association, Maria Karystianou, sent a legal notice on Wednesday to the president of the Parliament’s preliminary investigative committee into the 2023 Tempe rail disaster, Panagiotis Kappatos.