Cretan farmers and agricultural producers distributed vegetables and fruit for free to motorists at the Afidnes toll booth on the Athens – Thessaloniki national highway. The farmers were reacting to the new bill on Open Air markets and selling from stalls.
On 1 May 1976 a frantically speeding car with a Corinthian named Stefas behind the wheel, dashing on Vouliagmenis avenue in the Agios Stefanos neighborhood, forced another vehicle off the road and onto an embankment, where it crashed. The passenger of the second vehicle was none other than politician, poet, and junta resistor Alexandros Panagoulis. The 36 year old Panagoulis was killed almost instantly.
Communist Party secretary general Dimitris Koutsoumbas went today and paid homage at the rifle range of Kaisariani, where seventy years ago Nazi occupiers executed 200 Greek prisoners.
The armed forces and Hellenic Defence Systems (EAS) signed an 18.5-million-euro agreement late on Wednesday for the purchase of 265,000 40mm NATO-certified ammunition, for the army.
Today marks Labour Day in Greece, and includes massive rallies and strikes.
Hellenic Air Force C-130 transport aircraft became the lifeline to safety of an 8 hour old baby and a pregnant woman that needed immediate transfer to central hospitals.
The U.S. Department of State's recent 2013 terrorism report, categorized Greek attacks as intermittently small-scale.
Oλοκληρώθηκε η 6η αγωνιστική των play off της Φουτμπολ λιγκ, καθώς το ενδιαφέρον για τις ομάδες που θα προβιβαστούν παραμένει αμείωτο. Η Κέρκυρα έφτασε κοντά στην νίκη μέσα στο Καυταντζόγλειο, όμως η διαιτησία δεν επέτρεψε στους Φαιακες να κερδίσουν μένοντας στο 1-1-. Στο ντέρμπυ κορυφής Νίκη Βόλου και Ηρακλής Ψαχνών έμειναν στο 0-0.
Legendary Pontian Greek Sano Halo, passed away yesterday at the age of 105.
In 2014, Greece is predicted to acquire better budget figures than expected, yet unemployment rates will decline gradually within four years, as reported by the Finance Ministry yesterday.