Need for extended lifeguard cover comes to the fore
SOCIETY

The drowning of a 60-year-old tourist in Hania on Crete on Sunday has brought to the fore the need for more lifesaver cover, as the annual average of such deaths in Greece stands at 359, either while swimming or participating in recreational activities.


New anxieties grip Greeks in 2024
DIANEOSIS SURVEY

Tapping into the values and beliefs permeating Greek society, a survey by the Dianeosis think-tank shows that the return of economic insecurity, the consequences of climate change and the demographic issue are seen as major threats to the country’s future.

KIS condemns Iran attack on Israel
FOREIGN-POLICY

The Central Board of Jewish Communities (KIS) and Greek Jewry have issued a statement condemning Iran’s airborne attacks against Israel on Saturday and expressing solidarity with the people of Israel.

Annual parade in NY commemorates Independence Day
DIASPORA

Hundreds of Greek Americans and guests gathered along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in New York to partake in the annual Greek Independence Day Parade, which commemorates the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule.


Plan mulled to tackle juvenile delinquency
NEWS

Greece’s Health Ministry is preparing a program aimed at developing a model for the prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency, Stelios Stylianidis, psychiatrist-psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of social psychiatry at Athens’ Panteion University, told Kathimerini. 





‘Call 100. We don’t make arrests’
SOCIETY

“I had hoped Georgia would be the last,” says Maria Poutou. Her 43-year-old sister called their mother asking for help one night last December, after a beating from her 71-year-old partner that left her with a fractured leg.

Rescuing an ancient Greek dialect
SOCIETY

It has no writing system but it is spoken, mainly by elderly Muslim women in the Trabzon (Trebizond, historically) region in northern Turkey by a population that ranges between 4,000 and 8,000 people, according to estimates.


Mapping Greece’s seabed with brand-new tools
SOCIETY

They are explorers of submarine faults, often at great depths, using sound waves as a guide in the darkness. They have been trying for decades to capture the geological “engravings” and underwater structures of Greece’s seabed so that seismologists can better “read” the future.