Rescue crews, including the army, worked through the night to evacuate thousands of people stranded in their cars on an Athens highway after a severe snowstorm swept across Greece on Monday, blanketing the capital and causing traffic chaos.
A confidential European Union military report calls for continuing a controversial EU program to train and equip Libya’s coast guard and navy despite growing concerns about their treatment of migrants.
Attiki Odos SA, the company managing the Greek capital’s biggest ring road, has said that it will be compensating thousands of toll-paying motorists who became trapped on the highway in their cars and trucks.
Dozens of Athens suburbs and parts of the Mesogeia Plain northeast of the capital were still without power on Tuesday morning after Monday’s snowstorm caused widespread malfunctions across the electricity grid.
Authorities on Crete and the southeastern Aegean islands were bracing for heavy snowfall on Tuesday after seeing the havoc caused in the Greek capital by the passage of the storm dubbed Elpis.
The EU called on Russia on Monday to defuse tensions over Ukraine and reaffirmed that Moscow would face “massive” consequences if it attacked its neighbor, while NATO announced that European allies were deploying added ships and fighter jets to Eastern Europe and putting new forces on standby in response. Yannis Palaiologos, Kathimerini’s Brussels correspondent, joins…
US Congress members Gus Bilirakis and Nicole Malliotakis sent a sternly worded letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken objecting to a decision by the administration of President Joe Biden to withdraw support for the EastMed pipeline.
The Greek coast guard, volunteer lifeguards and two private ships were helping get the 10-member crew of a freighter off the coast of Crete to safety on Tuesday morning.
Authorities have warned the public to limit their movements on Tuesday to essential reasons only, as a holiday has been declared in the wake of heavy snowfall that began on Monday.
Some 5,000 motorists spent hours trapped in their cars in freezing temperatures on the Greek capital’s Attiki Odos highway on Monday and dozens were still trapped through Tuesday morning.