Modi visit to boost business with India
The visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Greece, the first by an Indian premier in 40 years, will include a business luncheon at a central Athens hotel on Friday.
Ties with India looking up with Modi visit
Narendra Modi’s visit to Athens on Friday is especially significant for Greek foreign policy as it is the first official visit by an Indian prime minister to Greece in 40 years. Indira Gandhi, then premier of India, visited Greece in 1983, at the invitation of her counterpart, Andreas Papandreou.
Loss of forest bodes ill for Athens
Firefighters battled high winds and hot, dry weather on Thursday to put out three wildfires raging across Greece, including one in the Alexandroupoli region in the northeast that officials believe is the largest ever recorded in the European Union.
The deafening silence of the forests
Bass Rock is an island not too far off the coast of Scotland, east of Edinburgh. It is home to the largest northern gannet (Morus bassanus) colony in the world, hosting nearly 75,000 couples each year.
Index up, but cannot rise above 1,300
The Athens Stock Exchange rose slightly on Thursday but could not scramble above 1,300 points, a level it has found difficult to sustain.
Tentoglou wins long jump gold with final leap
Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece won long jump gold at the World Championships on Thursday as his final leap of 8.52 metres edged him ahead of long-time leader Wayne Pinnock of Jamaica.
Efforts to contain wildfires continue
Firefighters struggled Thursday against strong winds and hot, dry conditions to tame multiple wildfires ravaging Greece, including one in the country’s northeast that officials say is the largest recorded in the European Union.
Recruiting the best
Whatever the final tally of managing the climate threat, what is certain is that the people on the front lines – pilots, firefighters, security forces, volunteers – are fighting with self-sacrifice.
Study shows health staff left ‘exhausted’ by pandemic
A study conducted by the University of Athens showed high levels of burnout among healthcare professional following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Smoke microparticles reach Malta and Sicily
Smoke from the forest fires burning in Greece has spread across most of the Eastern Mediterranean, with the National Observatory of Athens’ Meteo meteorological service reporting that the Thrace blazes in particular are releasing enormous volumes of microparticles that have now made their way to Malta and southern Italy.