News archive of June 2024

Police are looking for the drivers of two cars involved in a hit-and-run incident on Athinon Avenue in Athens that led to the serious injury of a 17-year-old girl.

The two cars reportedly ran over the girl in succession at 5.20 a.m. leaving the scene without offering help to the victim and without notifying police authorities.

With internal turmoil threatening to tear it apart in the wake of June's European Parliament elections, socialist PASOK is heading to leadership elections early in the fall, with relevant procedures expected to be launched at Sunday's crucial meeting of the party's central committee.

The Vikings were fearless warriors, traders and explorers. But few realise their restless spirits were guided by powerful women.

Seers and sorceresses known as "volvas" played a central role in Norse society and a spotlight is finally being shone on their shadowy influence in a ground-breaking show at Denmark's National Museum.

With sales in the residential areas running, having reached almost 100% for the beachfront residences and 65% for the apartments that went on the market at the end of 2023, and the individual developments within the area gradually locking in, the pieces of the puzzle of the Hellenikon mega investment are now coming together at an accelerated pace.

Family, friends and fellow protesters carry the body of Ibrahim Kamau, 19, as they procession and chant slogans to show their respects in the streets of Nairobi, on June 28, 2024.

Twenty days of undeclared, underground warfare passed between the night of the European elections and yesterday morning, leading to the open conflict between the President of SYRIZA PS, Stefanos Kasselakis, and his predecessor, bringing the unity of SYRIZA PS into crisis.

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian and ultraconservative Saeed Jalili are leading in Iran's presidential election, according to early results on Saturday from the Interior Ministry.

According to the latest count, Pezeshkian has won more than 8,300,000 votes and Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, has above 7,100,000

The image presented by Joe Biden in the debate with Donald Trump on Thursday caused concern and worry among Democrats, with even the New York Times calling on the 81-year-old American president to withdraw from the race for the White House.

A temporary U.S. aid pier has again been removed from the Gaza coast due to high seas and will be towed to an Israeli port, the Pentagon said on Friday as Israel's military said it was conducting raids backed by air strikes in northern Gaza.

Defense Minister Nikos Dendias briefed a Parliament committee on Thursday about two programs, whose potential implementation will contribute decisively to the modernization of the Hellenic Air Force and the Hellenic Navy - the acquisition of 20 fifth-generation F-35 fighters and Greece's exploratory participation in the current design stage of the Constellation-type frigate being developed for