A fire in the building housing the Chamber of Industry in the center of the northern city of Thessaloniki has been partially brought under control, firefighters said on Friday afternoon. The fire broke out at around 3 p.m.
Talks between Turkish officials and delegations from Sweden and Finland have made little headway overcoming Ankara’s objections to their NATO membership bids, and it is not clear when further discussions will take place, according to two sources.
Health authorities announced 3,727 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 9 a.m. Friday, a drop on Thursday’s figure of 4,048. The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also announced 14 deaths, one more than on the previous day. There were 133 patients on ventilators.
A man is being treated for burns in hospital following an explosion in a butchers and mini market in central Athens on Friday. Two more people suffered slight injuries in the blast, which occurred on the busy Ioulianou Street shortly before 1 p.m.
A World Health Organization senior official said on Friday that the priority needs to be containing monkeypox in non-endemic countries, saying that this can be achieved through quick action.
Iran on Friday summoned the envoy of Switzerland, which represents US interests in Tehran, to protest against the US seizure of Iranian oil from a Russian-operated ship near Greece, the foreign ministry said in a statement quoted by Iranian media.
Turkey’s growing leverage as a regional power in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted the United States to strengthen ties with Greece as a means of containing Turkey, a local expert told state-run Anadolu agency in an analysis published on Friday.
Greece’s Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) has dismantled a racket that imported wheat and corn from Bulgaria, involving dummy companies in that country and Greece, and sold it in the Greek market without paying VAT.
Yannis Palaiologos, Kathimerini’s Brussels correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to break down the EU’s proposal to extend a moratorium on EU fiscal rules until the end of 2023 and look at what it means for over-indebted countries like Greece.
The terms of the political game leading up to the next general election in Greece – whenever that ends up taking place – have become much clearer following the conclusion of the congress of the PASOK-KINAL (Movement for Change) socialist party.