Attention shifts to rare earths
The government sees opportunities to exploit domestic deposits of rare earths and critical raw materials after restrictions announced by China on exports of gallium and germanium.
Murder investigation opens after gruesome discovery at trash sorting plant
Police in Crete have opened a murder inquiry after staff at a trash sorting plant in Hania found a human head in a plastic bag traveling down the conveyor belt.
Russia pulls out of the Black Sea grain deal. What next?
Expert Max Bergmann joins Thanos Davelis to break down why Russia decided to terminate the Black Sea grain deal, what’s at stake if the deal isn’t renewed, and whether Ukraine, Europe, and the US have a plan B ready. We also explore what efforts are in the works to deepen the West’s engagement with Ukraine.
Villages evacuated on Rhodes as wildfire bears its teeth
Four villages and a hotel are being evacuated on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes as strong winds continue to stoke a wildfire that broke out in the early hours of Wednesday near the village of Apollonas in the western mountains.
Battling the flames
A firefighter helps an injured colleague outside at a village on the outskirts of Mandra in West Attica, on Wednesday.
Expert sounds alarm over Attica’s ‘environmental collapse’
An expert in disaster management has voiced concern that successive wildfires and heatwaves will spell the “environmental collapse” of Attica, home to the Greek capital, Athens, as the region continues to battle major wildfires burning through forests, brush, pastureland, residential settlements, farms and businesses.
West Attica town of Megara in wildfire’s path
The wildfire tearing through southern Viotia and West Attica since Monday has reached the outskirts of the town of Megara, with local officials appealing for assistance.
Greece and Turkey seek to tone down the rhetoric
Greece and Turkey aim to extend the positive atmosphere in their bilateral relations beyond the moratorium on military exercises in the Aegean Sea as they explore further possibilities for normalization.
Public tender “Procurement of firefighting vehicles and other first response vehicles for the fireservice” – Clarifications
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EU firefighters join Greek colleagues
It’s midday on Friday, July 7, and the phone rings on the desk of Vasileios Bikas, the coordinator for foreign detachments at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Hellenic Fire Corps Training Center.