Crime

Police in Greece have arrested dozens of suspects in a crackdown on soccer violence that led to the death of a police officer in December. Police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis, 31, died on Dec. 27 after being hit by a flare...

In Canada, police arrested several people and issued nine warrants in connection with the biggest gold theft ever in the country. The theft occurred at the Toronto Pearson Airport in April 2023. The stolen items included over 6,500 gold bars,...

An ultra-conservative Orthodox Christian leader and several of his followers were stabbed at a church in western Sydney. This brought about a huge gathering outside the holy building, as hundreds of enraged people clashed with police. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel...

At least five people have been killed during an attack at a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia with multiple reported stabbings. Nine people may have been stabbed in total. The suspected attacker was reportedly shot dead by a police officer....

Christie's, a British auction house, has withdrawn four ancient Greek vases from a New York auction after an archaeologist found out they were all linked to Gianfranco Becchina, who was convicted in 2011 of illegally dealing in antiquities. Dr. Christos...

The UK extradited to Athens a former Greek judge who fled jail sentence for money laundering in 2005. Antonia Ilia had been sentenced unanimously by a five-member criminal appeals court to thirteen years for participating in a criminal network operating...

Six police officers were removed from duty at an Athens police station on Wednesday after the femicide of 28-year-old Kyriaki Griva by her ex-boyfriend just outside the precinct. Griva had remained for eight minutes inside the Agioi Anargyroi police station...

Corfu's Saroko Square saw a fight between students at noon on Wednesday with one of those involved attacking the others and injuring them with a knife as well as wounding a passer-by who attempted to stop him. Knife incident in...

Greek police are under fire after the latest femicide in Athens. A woman was murdered outside a police precinct where she had just requested protection from an ex-boyfriend. The 28-year-old Kyriaki Griva was fatally stabbed on Monday evening shortly after...

In another case of femicide in Greece, a 28-year-old woman was fatally stabbed on Monday evening shortly after she had gone to her local police station in Agioi Anargyroi in northern Athens to seek police protection against her ex-boyfriend. Investigators...

Greek authorities took into custody a senior member of an international criminal gang that smuggled Latin American fuel products for illegal sale across the globe, making an estimated profit of more than $21 billion, police said on Saturday. The arrested...

A Greek woman was sentenced to life in prison by a court in Athens on Friday after she was found guilty of the murder of her daughter in 2022. 35-year-old Roula Pispirigou from the western port city of Patras was...

A former British Museum curator who stole and damaged artifacts has been ordered by a high court, which heard that many hundreds of the items were listed on eBay, to return any that remain in his possession. Before Higgs was...

Islamic State (ISIS) have claimed responsibility for the attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, which reportedly killed 40 people and injured as many as 100 more. The full statement posted on its...

Several ancient Greek artifacts have been found near a church in Corinth, southern Greece, where there were traces of illegal excavations, authorities said on Wednesday. They include a stone tombstone of the classical period (480-300 BC), a stone relief probably...