Nearly one in four storefronts in Athens’ so-called commercial triangle, a traditional hub of economic activity bounded by Omonia, Syntagma and Monastiraki squares, are shuttered and its traditional commercial activity is waning in favor of businesses and services catering to the capital’s increasing tourist population, research shows.
Workers clean the glass sculpture “Dromeas” (The Runner) by Greek artist Costas Varotsos in Athens on October 4.
Burnt trees and other flotsam from the summer wildfires in Evia and, perhaps, in Magnesia on central Greece’s eastern coast, have ended up in the sea and are creating a sailing hazard in the Kafireas Strait between the islands of Evia and Andros and, further south, to the island of Tzia.
In the Netherlands, Elma Baten worked for the police as a communications consultant. In Kastellorizo, a small Dodecanese island in the Eastern Mediterranean, she has taken up various jobs.
Migration and interior ministers from five European Union countries most affected by migration across the Mediterranean — Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain — hailed a new EU pact on migration but said more resources were needed.
Twenty flights from Athens will carry some 5,000 Israeli reservists to their home country to join the armed forces.
Education officials are planning to test pupils graduating from elementary and middle school in language, mathematics and a third subject – science or IT.
A resident of Portugal, known as a hacker under the handle USDoD (for US Department of Defense), has claimed in an interview that he broke into the websites of a European police training center and NATO’s Cyber Security Center (NCSC), using the hacked emails of a Greek police officer and a military officer, respectively.
A Greek resident of Jerusalem spoke to state TV ERT Saturday morning about his experience of Hamas’ intrusion into and bombardment of Israel.