The Greek government rejected new claims by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the country’s security forces attack and rob migrants trying to reach its shores, saying Ankara should instead focus on stopping traffickers who send migrants across the Aegean on flimsy boats.
A much-waited coroners’ review into the deaths of two children of the Daskalaki-Pispirigou family in Patra, western Greece, allegedly shows that they both died of asphyxiation instead of natural causes, sources said.
The leader of centre-left PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) said he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Russian gas producer Gazprom’s natural gas flows to Greece will be interrupted from June 21 to June 27 due to the annual scheduled maintenance of the TurkStream pipeline through which our country is supplied, according to information from DEPA Commercial, the country’s state-controlled wholesale and retail business.
Port Authority officials on the Greek island of Mykonos said Monday they had arrested six migrants rescued from a sailboat that was found rudderless and leaking water in the Aegean Sea in near gale force winds on Sunday for illegal transportation of third country nationals, causing a shipwreck and forming a criminal organization.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said Moday he will brief EU Foreign Ministers Affairs Council on the situtation in the southeastern Mediterranean and express support for North Macedonia and Albania’s EU path.
Greece’s Evangelia Platanioti performs during the women’s solo free preliminary at the FINA World Championships, in Budapest, Hungary on Monday.
The established YES to Shipping Forum brought to a close earlier this month the conference program of the most successful Posidonia exhibition so far, with the conference dominated by the interest by young people.
A wildfire broke out on Monday morning in grassland at a mountainous area on the island of Naxos, in the South Aegean, the fire service said.
A 79-year-old man suffered minor injuries on Sunday after being hit with a passenger airplane’s jet blast at a Greek island known for its close-up views of airplanes.