A team from the Hellenic Army’s Engineers’ Corps (MOMKA) spent three days last week repairing the ramshackle home of the sole resident of Kinaros, a tiny island located between Amorgos and Kalymnos in the Aegean Sea, it was announced Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry has accepted a request from the Greek ambassador to Ukraine to evacuate the Kyiv embassy and for embassy personnel to return to Greece.
A 69-year-old Greek man accused of murdering his 79-year-old American wife after an argument in Ioannina has been taken to Korydallos prison in Piraeus.
Health authorities announced 15,909 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m. Friday, a slight increase on Thursday’s figure of 15,829.
“Greece will stand by the Greek communities in Ukraine and especially the community in Mariupol. If there are Greeks who want to leave Ukraine we will warmly welcome them,” Kyriakos Mitsotakis told President Katerina Sakellaropoulou in a meeting at the Presidential Mansion.
Rescue crews recovered a sixth body from a ferry that caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy last week, authorities said on Friday. The body was found in the ferry’s second garage, they said.
Albanian Defense Ministry statement said that a contingent of 30 commandos of Albania’s armed forces would join Italian and Croatian KFOR troops in the city of Peja, 85 kilometers west of the capital, Pristina.
Hellenic Petroleum (HELPE), Greece’s biggest oil refiner, on Thursday posted an 80% rise in fourth-quarter core profit on higher refining margins and increased demand for fuel following the lifting of Covid restrictions.
A Thessaloniki prosecutor has ordered an investigation after fans of local soccer club PAOK suspended a banner during a game on Thursday that appears to have been expressing solidarity with the suspected murders of 19-year-old Alkis Kambanos.