National Technical University

Most metro stations in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, are bustling with workers carrying out the final tasks as the countdown to the inauguration begins. Even Google Maps has adapted to the upcoming reality, now showing the stations' locations, making a future that once seemed unreachable feel close at hand.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has every right to be angry at the leadership of the Citizens' Protection Ministry.

The area around the historic Athens Polytechnic building and most of the Exarchia district have been allowed to become a base for anyone bent on destroying public property, threatening people's lives and violent activities.

A group of 50 students were conducting a sit-in at the Aristotle University's rectorate on Thursday, authorities reported. The students, all allegedly members of the Students Struggle Front, were demanding the withdrawal of a 105 euro guarantee required for the rental of student rooms on campus.

Buses and trolley buses will divert around the National Technical University, or Polytechnic, in central Athens on Friday and Saturday nights due to a series of arson attacks on the vehicles in this specific area.

The Central Archaeological Council that stands as the country’s highest advisory body on Greece’s cultural heritage made an unprecedented decision to allow the use of the Roman Odeon of Kos as a temporary accommodation shelter for refugees and migrants in the area. The decision came after a  request by Doctors Without Borders.

A massive security operation is being mounted in central Athens for the 41st anniversary of the 1973 bloody student uprising against the military dictatorship.