Αστυνομικός εκτός υπηρεσίας ακινητοποίησε ένοπλο που λήστεψε μίνι μάρκετ

Το μεσημέρι της Κυριακής, ένας άντρας μπήκε σε μίνι μάρκετ στη συνοικία Χαριλάου, στη Θεσσαλονίκη, και υπό την απειλή μαχαιριού αφαίρεσε χρήματα από το ταμείο. Όταν η 60χρονη υπάλληλος της επιχείρησης επιχείρησε να ζητήσει βοήθεια, ο 46χρονος δράστης δεν δίστασε να την τραυματίσει με το μαχαίρι και στη συνέχεια τράπηκε σε φυγή.

Το περιστατικό αντιλήφθηκε αμέσως ένας αστυνομικός που βρισκόταν εκτός υπηρεσίας, καταδίωξε τον δράστη και τον ακινητοποίησε. Λίγο αργότερα, αστυνομικοί της ομάδας ΔΙ.ΑΣ συνέλαβαν τον ακινητοποιημένο άντρα για ληστεία και απόπειρα ανθρωποκτονίας.

Χθες αυτοί οι πρόσφυγες καθάρισαν παραλία της Αθήνας από σκουπίδια, πλαστικά και αποτσίγαρα (photos)

Ομάδα προσφύγων- ωφελούμενων της Κάριτας Ελλάς καθάρισε χθες από σκουπίδια, αποτσίγαρα και πλαστικά την παραλία Μπάτη στο Παλαιό Φάληρο με αφορμή την Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Προσφύγων.

Με αφορμή την Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Προσφύγων και στο πλαίσιο των τρεχουσών διαπραγματεύσεων για το Παγκόσμιο Σύμφωνο για τους Πρόσφυγες (GCR), η Κάριτας Ευρώπης καλεί όλες τις ευρωπαϊκές κυβερνήσεις ν' αυξήσουν τους ασφαλείς και νόμιμους δρόμους για τους πρόσφυγες επεκτείνοντας τα εθνικά προγράμματα επανεγκατάστασης.

Athens, Rising

It was Saturday night in Athens, and I was surrounded by dozens of young Greeks on the packed veranda of Six d.o.g.s., a cafe-bar and arts space that runs the length of an alleyway in the Monastiraki neighborhood. It was the 10-year anniversary party for Laternative, a local radio show launched in the wake of the country’s debt crisis, and people spilled into the gallery space, gathered under light-strung trees in the back garden and in the club area where the first of several bands was about to play.

Most of the partygoers looked to be in their early and mid 20s, just like I was the first time I came to this exact spot nearly 12 years ago, back when it was a tiny indie rock bar called Kinky. Standing here now, I could almost see myself as I was then: a 24-year-old backpacker sitting alone in the corner, smoking cheap Greek cigarettes and nursing a raki, unaware that my life had come to a crossroads.

There are places we live and places we visit, and then there are the other places. Places we return to, where we put down roots, but not strong enough roots to hold us — places that change us, that we haunt and are haunted by. Nowhere embodies this for me more than Athens, a city I’ve watched shift and evolve, endure crisis and chaos and economic collapse, and yet emerge from the wreckage as one of the continent’s most vibrant and significant cultural capitals, more popular than ever as a tourist destination. (Last year Athens welcomed a record 5 million visitors, double the 2012 figure.)

'The HOME Project' NGO is taking refugee kids off the streets of Athens (video)

Children are the silent heart of the refugee crisis. More than half of the world’s displaced population comprises minors torn from their war-ridden homelands who cross European borders in search of security and well-being. Many are unaccompanied and particularly vulnerable, prone to exploitation or violence similar to that they are fleeing. With the closure of the Greek borders, it is estimated that 2,100 children remain homeless and stranded in the country.

At the same time, an eight-year financial crisis has led to the creation of another problem in the Athenian urban landscape: numerous uninhabited and often abandoned buildings across the center of the city, in various states of continuous decay.

Where most people would detect two unrelated problems, Sofia Kouvelaki envisioned a solution that would benefit everyone. Kouvelaki is the head of the HOME Project, a nongovernmental organization that aims to provide security, support and social inclusion services to young refugees arriving in Greece. The principal tool of the initiative is the organization’s shelters: 11 formerly abandoned buildings which the initiative has rented and refurbished, converting them into welcoming homes for unaccompanied minors.

MoMA opens applications for four 12-month internships for Greek nationals

As a sponsor of the J-1 visa program, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is committed to providing opportunities for international students and emerging professionals to learn about the practices and organizational systems of an American museum. To this end, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, MoMA is accepting applications for four 12-month internships for Greek nationals.