Athens

The 3rd Athens International Poetry Festival will kick off next Monday, September 18 at the Athens Music Concert Gardens. 70 poets from 16 countries will participate in the event, which is scheduled to start at 8pm and the entrance is free for the public.

Giorgos Kaminis said Wednesday he will stay on as Athens mayor even if he is elected leader of Greece's new center-left party in November.

"If I am elected head of the center-left [party] I will not leave the Athens municipality as I was elected for a specific tenure and my political identity was known," Kaminis told Skai on Wednesday.

The Municipality of Athens and the suburbs of Kato Petralona, Moschato and Tavros will experience water shortages and even cuts in supply from Thursday night to Friday morning, the capital's water company, EYDAP, has announced.

Hooded youths lobbed Molotov cocktails and stones at riot police units in Exarchia on Monday night, the latest episode in a spate of unrest in the central Athens district often dubbed an anarchist stronghold.

An Athens court Monday handed a suspended three-year sentence to a former parliamentary candidate with far-right Golden Dawn, Themida Skordeli, over an attack more than six years ago on migrants in central Athens's Aghios Panteleimonas district.

The Greek National Meteorological Services (EMY) has issued an extraordinary bulletin for a new heatwave over the next days. The reports warns that the temperature will gradually rise, peaking at 40-41 on Thursday, July 12.

A 100-year-old man died in hospital, a few hours after falling victim to an arm robbery at his home in the Kalithea district of Athens, authorities said on Friday.

According to reports, two armed men enter the elderly man's home, where he lived with 80-year-old wife, at around 4.40 p.m. on Thursday.

Eight visual artists present a project centred around the desire of the fake blonde to shine, in the art room of the Greek-French Association in the Kolonaki district of Athens. The show revolves around the notion of reality and fakery. The term "suicide blonde" stems from a theatrical pun originating in the early 20th century - one who has "dyed by her own hand." Admission is free.

The percentage of arrivals in Athens rose by 14% in the first 3-month period, according to data presented in a joint press conference by the city’s Mayor George Kaminis and the vice-President of Aegean Airlines, Eftychios Vasilakis. Athens achieved an all-time record number of arrivals in 2016 with 4,6 million travellers compared to 4.2 million in 2015.

According to three surveys that were presented by the Mayor of Athens George Kaminis, 54% of the citizens of Athens consider the integration of the refugees in the Greek society as “difficult”, while 70% think that the refugees’ children should enroll to Greek schools.