Attica

Parents and even more so grandparents of students of Drapetsona's Second Primary School - at the junction of Georgiou Afara and Eleftherios Venizos Streets - may not be aware of methanethiol (methyl-merkaptani in Greek) but they can certainly recognise the odour in the air that they breathe.

Nursing staff of state-run hospitals will hold a four-hour work stoppage on Thursday to protest what it described as "divisionary" policies, their union POEDIN said on Wednesday.

The government usually acts as if it were the hegemonic and dominant political force of the country.

The hegemony they are touting is not real. Citizens exhibit and reveal a different story in all their actions ahead of upcoming local, European Parliament, and national elections.

Elefsina Mayor Giorgos Tsoukalas had to undergo surgery Monday after being stabbed in the thigh by a 35-year-old former local authority employee, although investigators do not believe the attack was work-related.

Urban works for the gentrification of the Faliton inlet are scheduled to start soon and are expected be completed in 2 years. The plans involve taking down the elevated road and the construction of a new route on the shore side.

More than 5,350 refugees and immigrants are staying in the passenger terminals of Greece’s biggest port, Piraeus, creating a suffocating situation which after the recent violent incidents has been out of control. About 300 people have already been transferred in Ilia and Ioannina, but on Friday the refugees were reluctant to go to refugee centers outside Attica district.

Events at nearly 100 archaeological sites, museums and monuments around Greece are scheduled for the evening of Saturday, Aug. 29, which marks the full moon of summer’s last month.

The owners of private islet close to the celebrated archeological site of Sounion,  southeast of greater Athens, have sued the Greek State to the tune of … 400 million euros over what they charge is the indirect confiscation of their property.

Public Order Minister Yiannis Panousis not only hasn't back down from his high-profile "open letter" last week, where he decried what he called a "Left of Nothing", but on Monday asked "what do you call a Left that takes up firebombs and heads for war?"

The Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, on Friday rejected a series of motions filed by the west Athens municipality of Nea Philadelphia-Halkidona against the construction of a new football stadium by AEK Athens, an iconic team that for decades was based in the district.