News archive of January 2018

The stress test parameters, which are more conducive to optimism than those of 2015, gave bank stocks a boost in Wednesday's trading session at Athinon Avenue, taking the benchmark's total gains for January to 9.53 percent - its best monthly performance in 20 months.

Ahead of Wednesday's arrival in Skopje of United Nations special envoy Matthew Nimetz, the prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Zoran Zaev, insisted that his country's plans to hold a national referendum over the name dispute with Greece would not be an obstacle to a solution but rather will serve as a guarantee of its permanence. 

The Education Ministry clashed with conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday over a recent spike in crime and lawlessness on Greek university campuses. 

Spanish hackers are accused of swindling a company in northern Greece out of 10,000 euros using the so-called "Business Email Scam."

According to a police statement, the three suspects intercepted emails between the company and another firm.

Posing as representatives of the second firm, the hackers convinced the company to deposit money in their bank account.

A 26-year-old man from Attica has been remanded in custody for allegedly peddling child pornography over the internet and for the attempted grooming of minors.

He was arrested last week after the mother of one of the victims filed a complaint with police claiming that an unknown individual had convinced her underaged son to send photos of himself.

An employee of the Greek Parliament was detained by police on Wednesday following an altercation with a traffic officer outside the central Athens building.

According to witnesses, the woman tried to drive through a cordon that traffic police had set up outside the Parliament's garage to stop motorists for inspection.

A cosmic event not seen in 36 years -- a rare "super blood blue moon" -- may be glimpsed on Jan. 31 in parts of western North America, Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Australia.

Croatia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from Tomislav Mercep, a former interior ministry official and alleged head of a police unit that killed Serb civilians, against his war crimes convictions.

Vucic told reporters on Wednesday that he also heard this from European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, who is visiting Belgrade, and with whom he spoke earlier in the day, and added that they discussed "many issues, including regional stability and the rule of law."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic confirmed on Wednesday that he had accepted Tuesday's invitation from Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic to visit Zagreb.

"I consider it is important for our country to receive this invitation; we accept that invitation, it [meeting] will be held on February 12th and 13th; I will talk to all Croatian officials," Vucic said.