Members of the Fire Service’s special Disaster Management Unit were able to locate a man on the fire stricken “Euroferry Olympia” on Sunday morning. According to the Hellenic Coast Guard, the man was seen moving near the stern of the ship and operations are ongoing to safely rescue him.
Five more women have come forward to accuse the former drummer of a popular Greek rock band of raping them when they were still children, as the musician’s 2013 conviction for sexually assaulting a minor heads to an appeal’s court in April.
Hundreds of cyclists, many of them wearing Carnival masks and costumes, flew balloons and rode through the port city of Patra in the northwest Peloponnese on Saturday, in celebration of the start this year’s three-week Carnival season, which runs through Clean Monday, on March 7.
Explosions have been heard from Euroferry Olympia, which is also tilting from the tons of water used to put out the fire on it, Skai TV reports.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met US Vice President Kamala Harris met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference Saturday evening
Perpetrators of sports-related violence will be taken straight to jail and their terms will not be suspended, even if they have been sentenced to just a few months, according to the new legal framework that the government is introducing and whose provisions Kathimerini has seen.
Shocked and sleep-deprived, passengers rescued from a Greece-Italy ferry that caught fire off the island of Corfu said on Saturday they felt relieved to be alive, though some feared for their livelihoods after losing trucks and cargos.
Health authorities announced 15,305 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m. Saturday.
The US Embassy in Athens and its Consular Section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US Government offices in Greece will be closed on Monday