People gather for a mass held on August 15 last year by Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, at the Holy Monastery of Panagia Soumela to mark the Dormition of the Mother of God in Turkey’s Trabzon region, known to Greeks as Trapezounta.
PPC Renewables has been chosen by the Waste, Energy and Water Regulatory Authority to build and operate two energy storage facilities with a total capacity of 98 megawatts (MW).
Greece has reached the point of needing people who are crazy enough to hold down crucial public administration posts but clean enough to do the job properly if we are ever to become a “normal” country.
A large number of ethnic Greeks attended a demonstration on Monday staged by the Omonoia organization in the southern Albanian city of Himare, demanding the immediate release of mayor-elect Fredi Beleri.
In this photo taken with long shutter speed, a Perseid meteor sparks, while entering the earth’s atmosphere as a man sleeps in Tripiti beach in Gavdos island, the southernmost point of Greece and Europe, early Sunday.
There is a common thread linking February’s deadly train crash at Tempe, July’s devastating wildfire on the island of Rhodes, the explosion at an ammunitions dump in Nea Anchialos that same month and the more recent events in the Athens suburb Nea Filadelfia.
The aggressive selling of banks and other blue chips initially led the Athens stock market to lose as much as 1.8%. In the end, the general index ended up at 1,278.87 points, limiting its losses to 0.62%.
The ethnic Greek organization Omonoia is holding a rally in the southern Albanian city of Himare on Monday evening to demand the immediate release of Fredi Beleri, the city’s mayor-elect, so that he can be sworn in and assume his duties.
Ships departing from the ports of Attica for the Greek islands on Monday and Tuesday were almost fully booked as people continued to quit the capital for the August 15 holiday, particularly for destinations in the Cyclades.