Piraeus, Greece

There has been a series of violent incidents involving Greece's ultra-right this year already. Five people were injured, three hospitalized, when a gang of suspected neo-Nazis attacked an anti-fascist center in the Greek port of Piraeus in late February. The attackers stormed the Favela Free Social Center in ...

Crypteia, a neo-Nazi vigilante group, has taken credit for Thursday's attack, multiple Greek news outlets have reported. ... In a recent report, Al Jazeera detailed a string of violence targeting Pakistani labourers and Afghan refugees in Aspropyrgos, Athens and Piraeus, as well as a series of death threats ...

It seems hard to believe the Greek stock market's benchmark was testing the waters close to 900 points just a few weeks ago. On Monday it was drawn closer to the 800-point mark, once again driven by pressure on bank stocks, while trading volume was desperately low. The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) ...

Athens, Greece - Greek police raided three anarchist squats in the capital and arrested at least 12 people, local media reported on Monday. ... was a very clear message that they are still here," he told Al Jazeera, explaining that it came amid a spate of anti-migrant attacks in Athens, Piraeus and elsewhere.

Greece's biggest port showed major growth in the handling of containers, rising to seventh spot among Europe's ports and third in the Mediterranean. Piraeus has risen one place in the European chart since 2016; back in 2007 it wasn't even in the top 15. In the last 10 years Piraeus has enjoyed an ...

Greek Shipping Minister Panayiotis Kouroumblis (front) speaks during a ceremony for the welcome of the maiden call of China's COSCO Shipping Taurus ... ATHENS, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Piraeus port, the largest harbor in Greece, entered a new era of handling 20,000 plus twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) ...

Piraeus port, Greece's largest, entered a new era of handling vessels with a capacity of more than 20,000 TEU (20-foot equivalent units) on Monday, when the ... the dynamic development of cooperation between the two nations in many sectors,” Greek Shipping Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis told the event.

As of February 1, 2018, Athens International Airport and the Port of Piraeus have been linked with direct rail service. Station to station, the journey takes about an hour. The new service is expected to offer travelers arriving at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport with the most direct possible option to a ...

ATHENS, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Visitors of the Aikaterini Laskarides Foundation Historical Library at Piraeus port are being offered a chance to take a dive into the history of Greece's richest ... The merchant vessel is believed to have been was sailing from Asia to Rome when it sank off the Greek island.

An Athens court has granted an appeal by the Greek state and Piraeus Bank to liquidate the Skaramangas shipyard. Assets will be auctioned off by international, ... demanding the yard return state subsidies. It has been reported that Greece wants to split the yard into commercial shipping and naval units.

Muslims attend Eid al Fitr prayers at a mosque in a basement, to mark the end of Ramadan, in the Greek port of Piraeus, near Athens. (Reuters). The Greek capital was meant to have its first formal mosque by now, but construction delays make it the only European capital without an official mosque.