An expert on Tuesday warned that rising sea and air temperatures in the east Mediterranean are causing marine heatwaves that are, in turn, leading to a proliferation of invasive fish species and jellyfish that threaten to throw delicate habitats off-balance.
Wildfires destroyed more than 13,000 hectares of forest and woodland in July – and that was just six, the biggest, of dozens of blazes that broke out across the country last month.
“The issue of the Parthenon Sculptures is not a dispute between the British and the Acropolis museums. It is not even a dispute between the UK and Greece,” the director of the Acropolis Museum told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.
General (ret.) Taxiarchis Sardellis joins Thanos Davelis to discuss Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar’s new and wild accusations against Greece which specifically target Greece’s efforts to modernize its military, which he said shows that Athens is allegedly “up to something” against Turkey.
About 400,000 employees in Greece’s catering sector (bars, cafes and restaurants) will be able to work beyond the usual five-day, 40-hour schedule and get an extra full day’s wage.
A prominent figure in Greek publishing and former chairman of the Lambrakis Press Group (DOL), Stavros Psycharis has died at the age of 77, his son Andreas announced in a social media post on Tuesday.
In the latest escalation in the rhetoric emanating from Ankara, Turkey said that any possible move against Greece would be an act of “self-defense.”
A deputy commander of the fire department at the airport on the island of Skiathos was indicted on Monday with child pornography charges.
Greece will erect a bust of the late Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader and president Ho Chi Minh in the northern Greek city of Edessa to mark his contribution on the Macedonia Front during World War I, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said in a tweet on Monday.
The Consumer Confidence Index compiled by the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE) reached a five-year low in July, with the index reaching -55.3 points, from -52.5 points in June.