Giorgos Kyritsis

A crowd of relatives, friends, and people from the artistic community gathered at Zografou Cemetery to bid farewell to Dani Katranidis, who passed away last Sunday at the age of 75.

Local authority officials in the parts of Halkidiki that were struck by last Wednesday's violent storm said on the weekend that conditions had virtually returned to normal following problems with the electricity and water supply.  

Commenting on the claim on Wednesday by SYRIZA MP Giorgos Kyritsis that nobody had died in Greece from petrol bombs, the general secretary of the Special Guards unit, Efstratios Mavroidakos, said on Thursday that more than 170 police officers had suffered burns from Molotov cocktails within a year.

SYRIZA MP Giorgos Kyritsis issued an apology on Thursday over his claim that nobody had died in Greece from petrol bombs, after he was accused of offending the victims of a deadly firebomb attack on a branch of Marfin Bank in central Athens during anti-austerity riots in May 2010.

A lawmaker of the ruling SYRIZA party said on Monday that the self-proclaimed anarchist group Rouvikonas is not a criminal group but a political one that engages in activism. 

Referring to the paint attack on the French Embassy and Consulate in Athens on Sunday, Giorgos Kyritsis told Skai TV on Monday that throwing paint is "a classic case of activism."

The use of tear gas by riot police against protesters reacting to foreclosure auctions in an Athens courthouse on Wednesday was an act of "criminal negligence," an MP with ruling SYRIZA has said.

The 6.6 magnitude earthquake that struck the eastern Aegean island of Kos in July caused 95 million euros in damages, according to the assessment of local authorities.

At least two people were killed on the Greek island of Kos on Friday when a magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook the popular summer resort holiday destinations of the Dodecanese Islands in Greece and the Aegean coast of Turkey, reported Aljazeera.

The Athens Council of Appeals Court Judges has decided that 11 people who served as heads or board members of the Athens 984 radio station, which operates under the auspices of the City of Athens, should stand trial for financial mismanagement.

English site Guardian is highly critical of the Greek government in dealing the refugees exposed to arctic weather conditions on the island of Lesvos:
From the Guardian: