A year after a migrant boat overturned off Rhodes, killing a child and a young man, a Greek court has sentenced the vessel’s captain to life in prison.
The court found the 32-year-old Armenian national guilty over the October 2025...
Greek authorities have filed complaints against 18 influencers over the promotion of illegal gambling online. The message from Greece’s Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis is clear: a large social media following does not put anyone above the law.
The cases are...
Cold water therapy was popular among ancient Greeks, and this is one of the reasons they established elaborate bathhouses for wellness and relaxation.
Greek physicians like Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, extolled the virtues of cold bathing. They believed...
At the 2026 Concordia Annual Summit in New York, George Logothetis, Chair of the Concordia Leadership Council and Libra Group Founding Chairman, delivered an address examining the erosion of social cohesion in an increasingly digital world. His remarks centered...
More than half of Greek high school teachers are aged 50 or older, making Greece's secondary school workforce one of the oldest in the European Union, according to the latest figures from Eurostat.
The 2024 data show that 58.1% of...
Scammers used AI voice cloning and executive impersonation to steal about €95 million ($108 million) from an Italian bank after convincing senior officials that the money was needed for a secret acquisition, according to court records and reporting on...
Nearly 200 people have been quarantined in Russia after an anti-plague lab worker in Siberia died from severe pneumonia following reports that she accidentally broke a test tube containing plague bacteria.
The case has raised fears of pneumonic plague in...
Greece’s regional intercity coach bus operators (KTEL) are looking to India and Egypt for drivers, with discussions covering the possible recruitment of about 500 workers as an Attica transport consortium struggles to fill vacancies.
Sofoklis Fatsios, president of the nationwide...
An 18-year-old living in Athens is suspected of working as a developer for KillSec, the ransomware group linked to almost 1,000 cyberattacks worldwide, Greek police announced on October 2.
The Greek Police identified him as a foreign national. His home...
A newly released trailer for an extraordinary documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes offers a rare look inside her life during the final weeks before she entered federal prison, with filmmaker Nathan Fielder repeatedly pressing her on whether she...
A dementia center planned for Peristeri, a western suburb of Athens, will provide free services to about 5,000 patients each year once it reaches full operation, according to the Greek government. The National Model Centre for Dementia (Εθνικό Πρότυπο...
A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after the co-pilot allegedly stabbed the captain and the aircraft suddenly plunged thousands of feet.
The incident aboard Flight FZ1073 unfolded on...
Indonesian authorities have demolished a cluster of luxury “villas” discovered inside a prison, where selected inmates allegedly paid to live with air conditioning, televisions, refrigerators and other comforts far removed from ordinary prison conditions.
The residences at Cibinong Prison in...
A Greek judicial council has found sufficient evidence to send former deputy minister Christos Triantopoulos and four other officials to trial over interventions at the site of the 2023 Tempi railway disaster that judges say resulted in the loss...
A proposal by a group of mainly Israeli residents to establish a private "international" school in a former Greek primary school building in southern Crete has sparked debate in the local community.
According to local media, the proposal concerns the...
