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On Monday, Greece opened three new metro stations, which include Piraeus, that will link the busy port with the Athens airport. The stations Maniatika, Piraeus, and Dimotiko Theatro on the extension of Metro Line 3 (the blue line) are expected...

Athens is a city of many faces, with some being more well-known and others remaining hidden to most visitors. One short trip to the northern suburbs of Athens reveals yet another side to the Greek capital. Notably, it is that...

A family tragedy took place outside a supermarket in Kifissia, Athens on Wednesday evening. According to what Greece's Kathimerini daily is reporting, a 35-year old police officer, who is now under arrest, shot his ex-wife outside of a supermarket in...

A tragic incident took place in Athens on Thursday afternoon, as a fourteen-year old girl allegedly committed suicide by falling on the electric railways lines belonging to ISAP. The incident took place at the Moschato railway station. ISAP is an electrified...

Three new stations of Athens' Metro Line Three are due to open in June, according to information an Attiko Metro operator shared with the state-run AMNA news agency on Thursday. The stations are Agios Nikolaos, which is in Nikea, and Agia...

  A 33-year-old woman was found dead inside her car in the garage of her apartment block on Wednesday evening. The incident happened in Athens' northern suburb of Kifissia. The local police was alerted by a phone call from the woman's mother....

A storm hit Athens on Thursday noon turning roads in the northern suburbs of the capital into rivers. Traffic police closed main roads in Kifisia and Nea Erythrea as the torrents of water made driving conditions dangerous. According to the fire...

Greek police are investigating the site of a furniture showroom in northern Athens which was extensively damaged by an explosion in the early hours of Thursday. According to reports, the blast occurred at around 4 a.m. local time  (0200GMT) on...

In the late hours of Monday, three trolley buses were set on fire in downtown Athens, police have reported. Initial reports reveal that the trolley buses were set ablaze by unknown assailants near the Polytechnic building and that there were no...

Retail stores in Athens continue to shut down due to the prolonged recession, with the percentages of closed shops in some areas exceeding 40%. According to data by the Institute of Trade and Services of the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce...

Giorgos Thomakos, the mayor of Kifissia suburb in Athens, Greece, was the victim of an armed robbery. According to preliminary information from the Greek Police, armed burglars broke into the mayor’s home and after they tied him and his wife, they took...

Public transportation in Athens will be staggered on June 13 as transport workers join a strike called by the country's largest labor unions representing public and private workers in the aftermath of the government's decision to shut down the...

Greek film director Sotiris Tsafoulias on Monday announced that he is withdrawing his film "Eteros Ego" (Other Me) from cinema theaters in order to assist the police in their investigation of a taxi driver's murder in the Athens suburb...

The scariest Greek ghost towns and haunted houses seems a rather appropriate subject at the moment given the rapid approach of Halloween. When one takes into consideration the country’s long and vast history, it is not surprising that there...

A group of Greek volunteer mechanics went to Evia fix vehicles that were heavily damaged in the flood in August of 2020.