The 2024 Pharos Summit, a key event promoting collaboration between Greek and US universities, is under way in Athens, with 20 American institutions attending.

A doctor in Mytilene on the island of Lesvos has been accused of overprescribing hundreds of medications to her family, including three different cholesterol drugs for her 15-year-old daughter.

Greek police on Wednesday arrested a 45-year-old man in central Athens for raping a 6-year-old girl.  

A near-collision between two passenger trains near Aghii Anargyri station in northwest Athens on September 13 was the fault of the two stationmasters at the company’s Remote Control Center in Acharnes (SKA), Greek railway operator OSE said in its report on the incident on Thursday.

Sixty-six new cases of viral gastroenteritis were reported in Ηania, Crete, in the past 24 hours, Agios Georgios Hospital manager, Giorgos Beas, told Kathimerini on Thursday.

The Greek Parliament voted on Thursday to lift the immunity of SYRIZA MP Pavlos Polakis, following a defamation lawsuit filed against him by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis.

Rescuers searched the Mediterranean Sea near Greece's southernmost island Thursday for two people reported missing when a boat carrying 100 migrants sank the previous day, Greece's Coast Guard said.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed skepticism about the Italy-Albania migration agreement in an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday signed a bilateral security defense cooperation agreement, on the sidelines of the European Council in Brussels. 

Laws exist but are not enforced – or at least not implemented efficiently and quickly. That is a prevailing perception in Greece for many aspects of daily life, but also a dominant perception in the business world.

Vasso Papandreou, one of the founding members of the socialist PASOK party, and a former European commissioner, minister and MP, has died. She was 79 years old.

Greece has achieved its target to connect companies’ card terminals with cash registers two-and-a-half months before the deadline, said Hatzidakis.

Nick Malkoutzis, the co-founder of Macropolis.gr, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the latest crisis within SYRIZA and look at what to keep an eye on as PASOK shifts gears following its leadership race.

Yet another safety breach on Greece’s railway has prompted an urgent judicial investigation, with Athens’ chief prosecutor seeking answers as to why a Suburban Railway (Proastiakos) train was routed onto a metro track.

A court in Larissa, Central Greece, on Thursday convicted four former regional authority officials for contributing to the devastating floods caused by the Ianos cyclone in September 2020, upholding accusations that they failed to carry out essential preventive work that could have stemmed the extent of the damage.

Turkey has been conducting technical works aimed at accelerating its planned purchase of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets, a Defense Ministry official said on Thursday.

Doctors and nurses working at Greece’s public hospitals were on strike on Thursday and their unions held a protest march from the Health Ministry to Parliament in central Athens in demand of more staff hirings and better salaries.

For 173 hours from the beginning of the year until September, electricity prices on the wholesale market were almost zero.

Europe needs to ensure that migrants who have entered the bloc illegally are turned back to their point of origin rather than their point of entry, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said ahead of the European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday.

Service on the Athens metro was thrown into upheaval and a courthouse was evacuated on Thursday following an early morning bomb threat that was emailed to authorities.