The most ambitious effort yet to evacuate desperate civilians from Ukraine’s devastated port of Mariupol, besieged by Russian forces for weeks, was upended by disruptions Friday, with thousands of residents managing to flee but many more still stuck after the Red Cross judged the exodus too dangerous.
The Greek government will announce initiatives to accelerate gas exploration in the Ionian Sea and in Crete, sources told state-run news agency AMNA on Saturday.
Wine tourism is high on the agenda of the Tourism Ministry, with the aim of attracting high-income tourists, extending the tourist season and creating unique authentic experiences for visitors, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Saturday.
Ukraine’s Embassy in Athens has expressed concern over a planned motor parade in Athens on Sunday afternoon “against Russophobia and racism,” in effect calling for it to be banned.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias plans to visit the Ukrainian city of Odessa Sunday.
The resistance shown by academic authorities toward the education minister’s request that they take responsibility for choosing which departments in their universities should be merged is not surprising.
“Greece has a strong claim to being the worst country in the European Union to be a child,” UNICEF’s Greek Office chief Luciano Calestini said in a recent interview with Kathimerini’s Iliana Magra.
A woman wearing a traditional abaya is watching the video intently. She snaps pictures with her cellphone at the moment where the Lions of Delos, gleaming in the Cyclades sun, appear on the screen.
Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea began flying out of its Athens hub on Saturday, having scheduled 14 services to and from the Greek capital for this season.
A Greek IT expert left Pittsburgh in the United States for Siret, a town on Romania’s border with Ukraine, in early March. He is still there on a mission that he never imagined himself involved in: helping the families of Ukrainian colleagues flee the war.