Some 50 fossilized tree trunks have so far been brought to light at the island of Lesvos' Petrified Forest, near Sigri, during ongoing excavations that continued until New Year's Eve, Professor Nikos Zouros, Director of the Petrified Forest of Sigri Museum, told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) on New Year's Day Friday.
The new ministers and deputy ministers joining the government will be sworn in at the presidential mansion on Tuesday, separated into three groups as a protective measure against the spread of Covid-19.
Nicole Malliotakis was sworn in as the representative of the New York's 11th Congressional District and sent a message of hard work for her term in office.
Elias Giovanidis, the 24-year-old Roma from Dendropotamos, who distributes food to the beneficiaries of the "Lighthouse of the World" is the volunteer to whom the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen referred to in her tweet, setting his actions as an example of solidarity for the coronavirus.
Comicdom, Greece's longest-running festival exclusively devoted to comics, is scheduled for April 10-12, 2021 at the Hellenic American Union (HAU) and the French Institute of Greece, as well as at the Soul Food Cultural Space.
Stricter coronavirus measures will be imposed on Kalymnos island, in the southeast Aegean, as of Thursday, New Year's Eve, the government said on Wednesday.
The government's first priority is to reopen schools at all levels, government spokesperson Stelios Petsas said on Wednesday, talking to the state broadcaster ERT. He noted that a discussion on how this can best be done, on the basis of the epidemiological data, will continue over the coming days in order to decide whether the date that children return to classrooms will be January 8, as initially announced, and whether all levels will open simultaneously or at different stages.
Many businesspersons are now with their backs to the wall after seeing the turnover of their businesses fall sharply, while at the same time the income of the approaching winter sales season is in danger.
Greek Finance ministry has launched procedures for the early repayment of a chunk worth 3.6 billion euros of a loan received by the International Monetary Fund. The specific repayment will cover loans ending in 2021 and 2022, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Monday. It will be the second early repayment of IMF loans within a year, totaling 6.3 billion euros, from a total of around 8.0 billion euros received from the IMF, or around 80 pct.
An alarm went off on Monday night at Greek police headquarters after the execution in cold blood of a 38-year-old man on Thermopylae Street in the suburb of Ilioupolis.
These difficult days we need a little extra light in our lives and, with the completion of the second phase of the illumination of the Filopappou Monument and the Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Agora, these important landmarks of the City of Athens are now "conversing" with the monuments on the Acropolis Hill, spreading a light of revival and rejuvenation and sending a message of hope for tomorrow.
"This Christmas, science offered us the best gift" said President of Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou after her vaccination against COVID-19 at Evangelismos hospital on Sunday.
Greece's Independent Power Transmission Operator SA (IPTO) on Wednesday announced the successful completion of a 24-hour electrification test of the first submarine cable that will connect the island of Crete with mainland power grids in Attica and the Peloponnese.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou visited the remote border island of Kinaros, where she met with its only inhabitant, Katerina Katsotourhi, on Wednesday.