Twenty-two foreign nationals were arrested between August 8 and 14 at the international airports of Iraklio and Hania on the island of Crete for trying to board flights to European destinations with forged travel documents, police said on Tuesday.
An earthquake registering 4 on the Richter scale shook Parga on the Ionian coast on Tuesday.
A total of 23 forest fires were registered in 24-hour period ending at 6 p.m., the Fire Service said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a code yellow fire warning (risk category 3) has been issued for a number of areas for Wednesday, including the Dodecanese, Hania, Lasithi, Messinia, Laconia and Kythira.
The number of undocumented migrants entering the country, as well as the number of human traffickers arrested in Greece, rose sharply from May to July compared to the same period in 2021, police said on Tuesday.
Abusive practices in the telecoms sector are not as prevalent as in the past, but they do exist. Providers try to sneak in hidden charges in contracts mostly written in extremely fine print and if customers wish to change providers, or simply use another contract and connection type with the same one, they face obstacles.
The Hellenic Police arrested a 55-year-old woman after she allegedly attempted to kidnap a 2-year-old infant from its aunt’s car in central Athens.
Greece will try to retrieve the body of a five-year-old girl who died on a river islet on the Greece-Turkey border where she had been among a group of migrants stranded there for several days, Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said on Tuesday.
Greenhouse gas emissions across the European Union rose in the first quarter from a year earlier, but remained just below pre-pandemic levels, the bloc’s statistics office said on Tuesday.
Evidence that the latest wave of Covid-19 is receding in Greece was confirmed on Tuesday as reported cases continued to ease with 73,710 reported for the week between August 8 and August 14 (a weekly change of -27%).
The first 16 aircraft engine assembly mechanics who attended the Public Employment Agency’s trade school in Halkida, north of Athens, are going through the interview process to be hired by Hellenic Aerospace Industry.