Fires near Athens and northern Greece brought under control
Two fires that broke out on Saturday, one in the Keratea area outside Athens and the other in the Sapes area of Rodopi in northern Greece, have been brought under control on Sunday.
Two fires that broke out on Saturday, one in the Keratea area outside Athens and the other in the Sapes area of Rodopi in northern Greece, have been brought under control on Sunday.
The 13 individuals arrested over the fire in Hydra, which was allegedly started on Friday by fireworks launched from a yacht they were on, will appear before a prosecutor in Piraeus on Sunday.
The lack of proper planning on the part of the state for the removal of waste and branches cleared from private plots of land has led to the creation of hundreds of potential fire sources around the country.
Metlen, the Athens-listed group formerly known as Mytilineos, has met the challenge of transporting the bulky equipment needed to develop its three open-cycle power generation units it is building in the UK.
It is an iconic image — a black-and-white photo of a blood-splattered student being clubbed by a paratrooper medic. It was the first photo to slip through the military cordon around Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980, exposing the brutal suppression of what would be known as the Gwangju Democratization Movement.