New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis denounced migrant traffickers as “scoundrels,” following the tragic shipwreck off the southern Greek town of Pylos on Wednesday that cost the lives of at least 78 people, with hundreds still missing.
Twelve Pakistanis were among survivors from a boat packed with migrants that capsized off the coast of Greece this week, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday.
The mayor of the town of Doxato in Drama, northern Greece, died in a car crash on Saturday morning.
In “The Rustler,” acclaimed artist Ilias Papailiakis presents the musings of an epic journey of self-discovery inspired by diverse literary references, ranging from Homer’s Odyssey to Freud and the Bible.
Authorities on the Dodecanese island of Kos have arrested a man on suspicion of the abduction of 27-year-old Anastazja Rubińska, a Polish citizen who has been missing since Monday.
Firefighters in Thessaloniki received 300 calls for assistance following flooding in the northern city during the early hours of Saturday morning as the National Weather Service has warned of rain and storms in most parts of the country on Saturday.
Almost 1,200 pension applications are being processed per day by the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA), while last month, according to data from the Labor Ministry’s Helios database, almost 30,000 new pensions were paid out.
Search operations continued on Saturday in the sea region 47 nautical miles southwest of the Greek town of Pylos, southwestern Peloponnese, where a fishing boat carrying migrants sunk on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people.
A legal provision on deferred taxation, for the third time in the last two years, has been triggered by Attica Bank recording a 386.6-million-euro loss for 2022, leading to a new increase in the percentage controlled by bank rescue fund HFSF in Attica’s share capital, from the current 69.5% to almost 72%.
The same human trafficking ring responsible for Wednesday’s shipwreck off Pylos in southern Greece had ferried people from Libya to Italy 18 times in two months, according to reports.