More than 30 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and hundreds of historic coins were confiscated during a police operation in Farsala, central Greece, following a tip-off concerning a local business owner.
Greece has set the protection of unaccompanied migrant and refugee children as its highest moral obligation, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said on Thursday after visiting a facility for such children run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Halandri, northern Athens.
New coronavirus cases smashed a fourth record in as many days on Thursday, reaching the unprecedented number of 35,580, up from 28,828 the day before, the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) has reported.
A fairly narrow session at Athinon Avenue on Thursday had rising stocks edge out falling ones by the narrowest of margins, while the benchmark sustained losses on account of the drop of most bank stocks.
The daily briefing of the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) revealed that the positivity rate in Greece reached 8.37% on Thursday. Specifically, the 35,580 cases reported were identified in a wider sample of 424,682 tests.
Public transportation in Athens will clock earlier than usual on New Year’s Eve, operators said on Thursday.
As the fast-spreading coronavirus variant omicron rages through Western Europe, officials and experts in low-vaccinated Eastern Europe anticipate a post-holiday explosion of Covid-19 cases in much of the region.
Greek health authorities were expected to announce a new high in new Covid infections on Thursday, the fourth record in as many days, as the omicron variant of the virus sweeps through the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin extended his greetings on Christmas and the New Year 2022 to heads of foreign states and governments, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The body of a man found floating last Tuesday (Dec. 28) in the open sea near the Cycladic island of Tinos belongs to one of the migrants who went missing when a sailboat carrying about 80 people overturned northwest of Paros on Christmas Eve.