Greece’s top prosecutor has refused a request by a lower court to reopen a high-profile case on a wiretapping scandal. The relevant trial had pointed to potential additional offenses and suspects. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/130...

Signage galore. #Athens #UrbanPhotography

For decades, the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — now valued at more than $500 million — has remained unsolved. It remains the largest art theft in history — far surpassing more recent museum thefts. https://to.pbs.org/4txI94V

The diary entry I didn't write on April 26 1986.

Ελπίζω η ακτοπλοϊκή εταιρεία να στείλει το λογαριασμό για τις υλικές ζημιές στους πανηλίθιους που καπνίζανε.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this comic illustration of a cat herding geese! 😻 They used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Paris and Athens exchange mutual defense pledges amid geopolitical turmoil www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Very strongly #Puppet_Regime youtube.com/shorts/68_Q3...

Hugely important story for anyone interested in transitional justice

Haaretz on Israeli soldiers' widespread looting of south Lebanon homes, as part of broader collapse of military discipline: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Tetra Sepura was installed by KRIKEL, a company linked to the wiretapping scandal. Its maintenance contract lapsed, leaving Greek authorities to rely on short‑term fixes. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1301572...

The European Union approved a massive loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for the next two years, the bloc’s Cypriot presidency said, after Hungary lifted its veto.

Ναι, γιατί, ως γνωστόν, η Δημοκρατία στην Ελλάδα κινδυνεύει από την εισαγγελέα που εντόπισε ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα σκάνδαλα των τελευταίων δεκαετιών στη χώρα.

Asked to comment on some ND lawmakers’ arguments that they are being investigated for simply forwarding the concerns of their constituents, Laura Kovesi replied: “Corruption, abuse of power, fraud, trading of influence … are defined as a crime in the Greek law." www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1301...

Greek parliament has voted to lift the immunity from prosecution of 13 ruling New Democracy MPs named in the case file relating to the OPEKEPE scandal over the distribution of EU agricultural subsidies. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/130...

Suspending funds is the EU’s strongest tool to safeguard rule of law. In Hungary, release of frozen EU funds was a key factor in Péter Magyar’s campaign. The Commission wants to enshrine RoL conditionality in the next MFF. In a new paper, I take a closer look: www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...

Το σύστημα επικοινωνιών Tetra Sepura εγκαταστάθηκε στην Αττική και εν συνεχεία σε Εβρο & Ανατολικό Αιγαίο από την εταιρεία Krikel, που ενεπλάκη στο σκάνδαλο των υποκλοπών. Η σύμβαση συντήρησης δεν ανανεώθηκε, και τα τελευταία δύο χρόνια, Αστυνομία και υπουργείο καταφεύγουν σε προσωρινές λύσεις.

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

"Bilateral trade between 🇨🇳 China and the 🇺🇸 U.S. accounted for less than 3% of global merchandise trade, yet made up 80% of the headlines – and that leads to a distorted perception." Ralph Ossa via @nzz.ch www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/k... #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS @econ.uzh.ch

An Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, bombings in Beirut, massive displacement and rising sectarian friction. The year is 2026, but for those who lived through Lebanon's civil war five decades ago, it may as well be the 1970s reut.rs/4cCVphH

EPPO head Laura Kovesi is in town for a conference and she met with the Greek justice minister to discuss the renewal of mandates for three European delegated prosecutors and a request to expand the number of posts by three. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/130...

The real-life version of cleaning the stables of King Augeas. #OPEKEPE #Greece www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/ana...

Τhe Greek Parliament’s ethics committee has recommended lifting the immunity of a total of 13 ruling party lawmakers for their alleged involvement in the country's farm subsidy scam. Final decision rests with the plenary which will meet this Wednesday. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/130...

New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

New Hungarian PM brutally confronts a news channel that banned him for years.

Makarios Lazaridis resigned as deputy agriculture minister on Saturday, after it was revealed he had held a position as a minister's expert adviser without the required academic qualifications. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/130...

MLK had a 63% *unfavorable* rating with Americans in a 1966 Gallup poll. Nelson Mandela was legally considered a terrorist by the U.S. government until 2008 (!!). People saying this shit almost certainly would have hated both and found a way to delegitimize their causes at the time!

Ο Θεσσαλονικιός Εβραίος Χάιντς Σαλβατόρ Κούνιο, επιζήσας του Ολοκαυτώματος, έφυγε από τη ζωή σε ηλικία 99 χρόνων.

The Gisèle Pelicot case was the tip of a massive iceberg.

Η ΝΔ συνειδητοποιεί πλέον ότι η αρχική στήριξη που παρείχε στο Λαζαρίδη έγινε μπούμερανγκ.

BREAKING: Iran has reimposed restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz, accusing the U.S. of violating deal to reopen it.

The House just failed to end the Iran war by a single vote (213-214). Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) was the lone Democrat to cross the aisle, providing the deciding margin to defeat the War Powers Resolution. Rep. Thomas Massie was the only Republican to vote in favor of the measure.

Very interesting piece this. Demonstrates the pervasive influence of "shitstalgia" while also highlighting that its some among the 60 pluses who need a social media ban and much more than the kids.

Last year, President Donald Trump dispatched a chainsaw-wielding billionaire to loudly eliminate more than 300,000 federal jobs in an unsparing attempt to shrink the government. Now, the Trump administration is quietly hiring again.

Ωστόσο, πρόκληση είναι τόσο οι συστημικές ελλείψεις όσο και οι καθημερινές δυσκολίες που συνεχίζουν να κρατούν εκτός ουσιαστικής εκπαίδευσης έναν πολύ μεγάλο αριθμό παιδιών.

Για τους εκπαιδευτικούς που έχουν ασχοληθεί εκτενώς με την διαπολιτισμική εκπαίδευση, οι χιλιάδες αλλόγλωσσοι μαθητές που εισέρχονται κάθε χρόνο στο δημόσιο εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα είναι πλούτος για τα σχολεία και αργότερα για την κοινωνία.

Ποιοι είναι οι μαθητές - "φαντάσματα" του ελληνικού σχολείου; Γράφει η Εύα Παπαδοπούλου #insidestory_gr insidestory.gr/article/oi-m...

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it.

A suspected international plot with elements of espionage has unfolded in Greece, where authorities arrested a Greek from the former Soviet Union in Thessaloniki, accused of involvement in a Russia-backed network allegedly planning assassinations in Lithuania. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1300983...

Ομογενείς από τη Γεωργία που συνελήφθησαν το 2025 και 2026 στη βόρεια Ελλάδα φέρεται να ήταν μέλη δικτύου που σχεδίαζε να δολοφονήσει ένα Ρώσο ακτιβιστή και έναν Λιθουανό επικριτή του Πούτιν που ζούσαν στη Λιθουανία, κατ’ εντολήν των ρωσικών μυστικών υπηρεσιών. www.kathimerini.gr/visual/infog...

Τώρα ο Λαζαρίδης ζητά να επιστρέψει όσα τον πλήρωσαν ως ειδικό επιστημονικό σύμβουλο του υπουργείου Παιδείας το 2007. www.kathimerini.gr/politics/564...

Ο ένας από τους διωκόμενους περιγράφει συνομιλία που φέρεται να είχε με κορυφαίο αξιωματικό της ΕΛ.ΑΣ., ο οποίος απευθυνόμενος στα μέλη της ειδικής ομάδας φέρεται να είπε: «προσέξτε, κινούμαστε πάνω σε μια πολύ λεπτή γραμμή μεταξύ νομιμότητας και παρανομίας».

👀 Russia-linked hackers compromised 27 email inboxes managed by Hellenic National Defense General Staff, Greece’s top military body, according to data reviewed by Reuters. Among those hacked were Greek defense attaches in India and Bosnia. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...

Ακροδεξιοί βεβήλωσαν το Εβραϊκό νεκροταφείο Βόλου – Η ανακοίνωση του ΚΙΣΕ

A student opened fire inside a school in southern Turkey on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding 20 others, according to a provincial governor. It was the second school shooting in Turkey in two days.

An American-Kuwaiti journalist is understood to have been detained by authorities in Kuwait after he commented on videos and images related to the US-Israeli war with Iran cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...