by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 14, 2017 | World
Firefighters battled to contain a wildfire near Athens on Monday after it spread overnight to three towns some 45 km northeast of the capital and damaged dozens of homes. The blaze broke out on Sunday in Kalamos, northeast Athens, and quickly spread, fanned by strong...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 6, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture
Athens-Archeologists have found at least 80 skeletons, their wrists clamped by iron shackles, in a mass grave in an ancient Greek cemetery in central Athens. They are the victims of a mass execution. But who they were, how they got there and why they appear to have...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 4, 2016 | World
Lawmakers in Greece on Thursday approved the construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens — a proposal that was not well received within the coalition government amid a heated public debate on how to manage the Syrian refugee crisis. The proposal,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 10, 2014 | Business
Athens, AP—Buoyant Greek officials hailed the country’s return to the international debt market after four years as an overwhelming success on Thursday, with investors snapping up the five-year bond in a sale that was eight times oversubscribed. The finance...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 9, 2014 | Business
London and Athens, Reuters—Greece, at risk of crashing out of the euro zone just two years ago, will issue its first sovereign bond in almost four years on Thursday, seeking to send a strong political and economic signal it is on the way out of its debt crisis....
