Eleftheros Typos

A Bulgarian has been killed by lightning in Greece after the weather in the country deteriorated today, Eleftheros Typos reported.

A 56-year-old Bulgarian was struck by lightning in an illegal landfill near Alimaki on the Peloponnese Peninsula, BTA reports.

This is the second case in which a lightning killed a person today.

The previous SYRIZA government did not only take care to issue huge "golden" pensions to certain categories of retirees.

It had also made sure to issue higher retirement bonuses than what was provided in SYRIZA's own insurance reform law of 2016 to certain categories of pensioners insured by TSMEDE, the engineers' insurance fund.

The Athens Court of Appeals was being evacuated on Tuesday morning following two anonymous telephone calls warning of a bomb.

The calls were made to the newspaper Eleftheros Typos and the website Zoulga.gr, warning that the court had to be evacuated by 11.20 a.m.

Greece's leftist government faced controversy Sunday following reports that Maximos Mansion sent out guidelines to senior administration officials on how to spin bad press in the aftermath of the lethal wildfires that ravaged eastern Attica on July 23.

Greece has called on Spain's ambassador to Athens to rescind statements to a Greek newspaper suggesting that Athens was not supportive of Spanish unity, revealing strains between the European Union partners over a Catalan independence drive. 

The secretary of opposition New Democracy and 26 lawmakers with the conservative party on Tuesday challenged Health Minister Andreas Xanthos to respond to the findings of a newspaper survey into the operation of the appointments hotline for public hospitals.

An Athens prosecutor has ordered an investigation into the presence of a cargo container in the capital's central Exarchia Square, which members of anarchist groups set up earlier this month and have dubbed a "political kiosk."

House speaker Nikos Voutsis on Tuesday defended a provision that will see politicians paying up to 2,000 euros less a year for the so-called solidarity tax.

The official request by global luxury brand Gucci to hold a fashion show at the Parthenon in Athens on June 1 has caused some uproar in Greece. According to newspaper Eleftheros Typos, the company has also asked to record the fashion event, but the chances of the Greek authorities accepting its request are slim.

Athens will be in complete lockdown, in the wake of outgoing US President Barack Obama’s official 2-day visit to Greece on Tuesday, November 15. The heightened security measures include restricting access to areas in and around Athens, including the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, the centre of the Greek capital, the Acropolis and the Astera resort in Vouliagmeni.