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The leadership race for the opposition socialist PASOK party is underway on Sunday, with voting beginning at 7 a.m. at 950 polling stations across Greece. 

Polls close at 7 p.m., although voting may be extended if turnout is high, especially in Athens and Thessaloniki. 

About 65,671 citizens had voted by 11 a.m.

The great composer Mimis Plessas has passed away. On October 12, he would have celebrated his 100th birthday.

More than 900,000 properties remain vacant and underutilized across Greece, according to real estate experts. Many of these properties are tied up in legal disputes, owned by the government, banks or institutional creditors.

According to Spitogatos data, average asking prices for residential sales prices across Greece increased by 6.8% in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, while average asking prices for rental properties increased by 7.6%.

The highest house purchase prices were recorded in the southern suburbs of Athens and the Cyclades, the lowest in Kastoria and Florina

NOVI SAD - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday the construction of a Novi Sad-Subotica high-speed rail line section - to be inaugurated on November 24 - was a "big thing" for entire Serbia and that he expected Hungary to complete its stretch of a Belgrade-Budapest line in two years' time.

Greek authorities arrested eight Romanian soccer fans under fan violence laws on Thursday, after a knife and a retractable baton were found in the van they were traveling in ahead of a Europa League match.

A 16-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in the northern city of Thessaloniki.

Police said the girl filed a complaint at the Lagkada Police Station, stating the boy sexually assaulted her in an abandoned building last Monday.

The boy will be brought before a criminal prosecutor.

Recognizing the need to highlight entrepreneurial ideas that can transform our country into a productive, extroverted, and competitive economy and aiming to provide comprehensive support to innovative scientists, research teams, and start-up entrepreneurial efforts to realize their potential and their vision, the National Bank of Greece has been implementing for 15 years a holistic program to s

The implementation of a 24-hour General strike for Wednesday, November 20, 2024, was decided by the Plenary of the GSEE, which met today with the central issues of dealing with the price increase, the increased prices of rents and the housing market, and the restoration of Collective Labour Law.

An armed robbery occurred outside a convenience store in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Monday afternoon.

At around 2.10 p.m., a suspect struck a delivery driver with a gun handle, stole an undisclosed amount of cash and fled.

Police are searching for the suspect.