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ATHENS (AFP): Greek authorities placed a man described as an Athens university professor in pre-trial detention on Thursday on suspicion of starting a series of wildfires near Athens, local media said.

The rioting began in Athens’ Exarchia district and around the Athens Polytechnic building on Saturday evening, after the events marking the 45th anniversary of the November 17, 1973 student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic.

Following his return to Athens, Lytras became a professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the Department of Painting and he taught until the time of his death, some 38 years.

A drone view shows Theodore Giannaros, fire meteorologist of the National Observatory of Athens, walking on a burned area following a recent wildfire on Mount Penteli, near Athens, Greece, on Aug 29, 2024.

Athens-Clarke County Mayor Kelly Girtz filed a petition with the county’s superior court on Wednesday, requesting the court suspend a recall effort organized against him, the Athens Banner-Herald.

ATHENS - Exit polls gave the following range of results per party at the European elections in Athens, as voting ended at 19.

From Friday, December 20, 2024, vehicle owners in Athens will have the opportunity to collect their license plates that had been removed by the Athens Municipal Police.

According to the Athens County Sheriff’s Office, Brady Dorton, age 24, broke into Lucky’s Pizza in Albany on December 31, and the Red Man Lodge in Athens a week later.

ATHENS: After Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque reopened for worship, Muslims in Athens fear their own official place of worship, delayed for over a decade, will be held back again.

ATHENS, Greece — A plaque commemorating three bank employees who died of asphyxiation when their workplace was firebombed during a protest march 10 years ago was unveiled in Athens Saturday.

ATHENS, Greece — Greece is transferring 450 migrants recently detained for trying to reach the island of Lesbos illegally to a facility near Athens, authorities said Sunday.

A man stands next to the remains of a metal gate crumpled by a military tank in a 1973 pro-democracy student uprising, in the courtyard of the National Technical University of Athens, known as the Athens Polytechnic, on Saturday.

An Athens court on Wednesday handed down a 10-year suspended sentence to Andreas Martinis, the former chairman of Athens’s Henry Dunant Hospital, and his wife after finding them guilty of money laundering.

ATHENS - Ola Faye Jay, 92, Athens, died on August 16, 2019.

Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Georgia voters at a voting machine during the US presidential election at the Athens-Clarke County Fleet building in Athens, Georgia on November 8, 2016.

There will be no services on Friday on the Athens tram from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on the Athens metro from noon to 6 p.m. as workers join their unions’ respective general assemblies.

ATHENS (AP) — An Athens court has opened the appeal hearings of two Greeks convicted of belonging to an anarchist terrorist group, under heavy police security.

ATHENS (AP) — Organisers of an upcoming anti-government protest in Athens said Friday that they hoped to draw one million people to the rally aimed at stopping Greece and Macedonia reaching a compromise in a bitter name dispute.

Berne Union Golden Rocket Marching Band walks toward the performing field in the 44th Athens Invitaional Marching Festival on Oct. 6, 2018, in Athens, Ohio.