Avgi

A weather pattern known as an Omega block will be bringing another taste of spring to Greece as of Monday, after a wintry weather system dubbed Avgi covered many parts of the country with snow for a short spell in late January. According to forecasts, daytime temperatures in will rise starting on Monday, to reach highs of 19-20 degrees Celsius later in the week.

A fire service truck clears the snow from the road near Lake Beletsi in Ippokrateios Politia, about 35 kilometers north of Athens, Tuesday. The Avgi cold weather front hit the Greek capital and outskirts, bringing low temperatures and even snow in mid to high-altitude areas. The weather is anticipated to progressively improve on Wednesday as Avgi retreats.

An expert wreck researcher has located the remains of a ferry boat that went down off the southeastern coast of Evia on the afternoon of February 23, 1983, killing 28 passengers and crew, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The Archbishop of Athens has come under criticism in Greece for quietly raising the costs of church funerals during the pandemic by up to 250 per cent without any warning or explanation to funeral homes and the families of the deceased.

"X Them Out," a group exhibition of sketches depicting racist incidents, is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (MOMus). The exhibition is a joint initiative by the Athens-based civil society organization HumanRights360 and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and a part of the campaign bearing the same name.

Recently we have been witness to a contest between Greece's two main political parties, Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and New Democracy (ND), over which is worse in terms of their authoritarian handling of the media.

In this lengthy post on his Facebook page, titled "Forgive them, for they know not what they do," Thanassis Karteros, the head of the prime minister's press office and a former columnist at the government-affiliated Avgi newspaper, condemned the reactions of the politicians implicated in the Novartis affair and the debate in Parliament that earlier this week approved the creation of a committee

Leftist daily Avgi, which is close to the ruling SYRIZA party, on Wednesday criticized the government's failure to adequately protect refugees living in camps across the country from sub-zero temperatures and heavy snowfall.

Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis said that "meetings he had in Moscow and their results may mark a new era in the two countries energy, economic and political relations.

Loukanikos, the emblematic sandy-colored mutt that became a symbol of Greek resistance to austerity, has died, leftist daily Avgi reported on Thursday.