Greece

Greece’s Competition Committee, an independent authortity, confirmed on Friday that it had raided all the country’s major banks a day earlier as part of an investigation into collaboration between lenders. Inspectors raided the head offices of National, Piraeus, Alpha, Attica and Eurobank, along with the offices of the Greek bank …

TrainOSE on Friday announced changes in its suburban railway (Proastiakos) schedule due to the Athens visit of the President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping on November 10-12. After Greek police directives, the following changes will affect stops related to Athens International Airport routes and times: – On …

American basketball coach Rick Pitino will coach Greece’s national team, the Hellenic Basketball Federation announced on Friday. In a statement, the federation’s chief Giorgos Vassilakopoulos said that Pitino agreed to coach the Greek national team as it strives to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Details of Pitino’s new …

A 12-year-old boy was transferred to hospital after playing the so-called “choking game.” The boy was reportedly playing the game together with his friends in a school in Loutraki, western Greece. The boy was first transferred to the hospital in Corinth and from there to a children hospital in Athens. …

A rescue operation was launched for a cat trapped on top of a power column in Corinth. All previous efforts to get the frightened kitty down had failed. When the rescuer reached out to the cat, the frightened animal made a surprise move. Initially, pupils from a nearby school tried …

Greece has accused Turkey of “distorting history,” after the Foreign Ministry in Ankara claimed that Greece committed “atrocities against Turks and other citizens of the Ottoman Empire” and “systematically annihilated Turks and Muslims.” In a statement, the Greek Foreign Ministry said “Turkey’s insistence on distorting History is unbecoming of a …

An airplane of Egypt Air was forced to an emergency landing in Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” short before 10 o’ clock on Friday morning. The airplane sent a danger signal while it was flying in FIR Athens and over the island of Chios in the Eastern Aegean Sea. Reason …

Greece lowers the limit of cash transactions from 500 euro to 300. Purchases with a value above the new limit should be made exclusively through electronic payments. The new limit is thought as a measure to combat tax evasion. This is one of the measures of the draft tax bill …

A powerful thunderstorm stroke the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea, in the night from Wednesday to Thursday.  1,046 thunderbolts fell from midnight until 3 o’ clock in the morning. Pictures Alexandros Melidis via corfutvnews The electric discharged continued during the day, with a total of 12,000 thunderbolts to …

The European Union is preparing to pay Turkey tens of millions to help bolster its coast guard, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as increasing numbers of migrants and refugees are leaving Turkey in hopes of finding sanctuary or jobs in Europe. Greek authorities are struggling to cope with a …