A life raft carrying migrants crashed into rocks off Turkey’s Aegean coastal town of Cesme on Tuesday, killing seven people on board, the Turkish coast guard said.
The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), a member company of GROWTHFUND – The National Fund of Greece, announces that today, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, the contract for the development of the property “Sani Kassandra” was signed between the Fund and the company “Sani Development and Tourism Company S.A.”.
It was a thrilling night. Not long after the polling stations closed and the first results were announced, it was clear that Labour was heading for victory.
The combination of strong, gusty winds and high temperatures in the 35-40 Celsius range has raised the fire hazard warning to Level 4 for many parts of Greece on Wednesday.
The wind speed in the area where a French woman competing in the Aegean 600 regatta died on Monday night after falling into the water reached 40-42 knots at times, according to a member of one of the other crews in the race.
Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to look into Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s latest travels, his ties to Russia’s Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan, and whether this is cause for concern in Athens, Nicosia, Brussels and Washington.
The Fire Service was evacuating a public nursing home and a hospital in the western port city of Patra on Tuesday as a wildfire closed in on the facilities.
The Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) could collect an extra 4 billion euros from large debtors.
A 40-year-old French woman who was competing in the Aegean 600 rally died in a sailing accident on Monday night off the coast of the island of Kasos.
The biggest reservoir on the Greek island of Naxos has dried up, useful only to the turtles that cruise its muddy shallows. Downstream, seawater has seeped into empty irrigation wells, harming the island’s prized potato crop.