Greece

A 3-year-old boy was forgotten in a kindergarten bus, where he spent four hours locked up in an empty vehicle.  When he was found and released from the torture, the boy was so shocked that he did not speak for several hours. The incredible incident took place in Pallini area …

With a pair of F-16 fighter jets, two electronic warfare aircraft and one unmanned aerial vehicle Turkey violated the Greek Airspace 18 times on Tuesday. The 18 FIR Athens violations occurred in the South-East Aegean Sea. In two cases Greek and Turkish jets were involved in “dog-fights.” The Turkish fighter …

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that European countries support terrorists and threatened “The terrorist snake you are breeding with your hands will one day turn against you and bite you. You will understand the mistake you commit when bombs will explode on your streets, terrorists will use their guns …

The new development law will slash investments-related bureaucracy as much as 70%, Greek Development and Investment Minister, Adonis Georgiadis, said  speaking at the 4th EU-Arab World Summit in Athens. Praising the Arab-Greek relations he stressed that Greece is “a traditionally friendly country to the Arab world.,” He called on Arab …

Greece’s National Meteorological Service has issued a weather warning Wednesday noon about heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms and sharp temperature decrease. The extreme weather phenomena may be locally accompanied by hail-falls and powerful winds up to 7 Beaufort. Meteorologists forecast sharp temperature drop by 9 degrees Celsius in northern Greece. The …

The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to officially recognize the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide. Historians say an estimated 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire — the predecessor to modern-day Turkey — between 1915 and 1923. The historic …

Another 28th October parade marking Greece’s entry into the Second World War and another controversy. Not a year goes by without some parades, and the behaviour of marchers or onlookers, grabbing the attention of the media. In this case, it’s the parade that took place in the municipality of Filadelfeia-Chalkidona …

Ten investment schemes have submitted expressions of interest for a 30% stake in Athens International Airport (AIA), Greece’s privatization agency said on Tuesday. Greece holds a 55% stake in the airport. Germany-based AviAlliance GmbH, owned by Canada’s pension investor PSP Investments, holds a 40% stake in the airport and Greece’s …

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Greece to remove specific articles on its new Asylum draft Law as they threaten to restrict access to protection for asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Greek parliament should scrap provisions in a new bill that threaten to limit asylum seekers’ access …

An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale rattled the island of Crete on Tuesday afternoon. Τhe Greek Geodynamics Institute gives the tremor magnitude as 4.1 R, other international institutes as 4.2R The earthquake occurred short after 3:00 p.m. with its epicenter to be located in the sea area, 38 …