Drug traffickers arrested on Mykonos island
Two individuals, aged 43 and 22, were arrested at the airport on Mykonos island for drug trafficking.
Mitsotakis thanks aerial firefighters
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has visited an air base in Elefsina to thank the country’s aerial firefighters.
Regional deterioration unsettling Athens
The prospect of a further deterioration of the situation in the Middle East, as well as the unforeseen direction that the Russian-Ukrainian war has taken, has generated concern in Athens, which is closely monitoring developments but, of course, unable to have a meaningful impact.
Fire-striken residents hosted in Olympic Stadium
About 150 residents affected by the recent fires in northeastern Attica have been accommodated so far in the Athens Olympic Stadium, which opened to receive them on Sunday night.
Police dismantle gang trafficking drugs from Europe to Israel on yachts
Greek police, with assistance from Israel, have arrested eight foreign nationals, dismantling a criminal ring that used yachts to traffic drugs from Europe to Israel.
A ‘self-managed commune’ next to police headquarters
For thousands of drivers and pedestrians traveling daily on Alexandras Avenue near the Panathinaikos soccer stadium, the view of the refugee apartment blocks has remained largely unchanged for at least 40 years: faded ocher facades, rickety balconies, peeling walls, tattered curtains, scattered satellite dishes and political and soccer slogans. Few notice the four black, neatly…
52 migrants rescued off southern coast of Crete
Coast guard officers have rescued 52 migrants off the south of Crete after receiving a call for help through the emergency 112 number.
Firefighters tackle last of wildfire near Athens as officials assess damage
Firefighters battled on Wednesday to extinguish the remnants of a wildfire near Athens that killed a woman, torched buildings, devoured woodland and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.
Fourteen arrested after ferry fracas
Coast guard officers on the island of Tinos have detained 14 passengers after a fracas broke out aboard a ferry.
Two-fifths of Attica’s forests have burned since 2017
Almost two-fifths of Attica’s forests have burned down in the last eight years, an analysis conducted by the National Observatory of Athens’ meteorological service has found.