As the UN Ocean Conference opens in France, a push to turn promises into protection
The third UN Ocean Conference opens Monday as pressure mounts for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea.
One of three assailants who beat up sanitation worker identified
Greek police on Tuesday identified one of the three men who violently attacked a garbage collector employed by the Municipality of Athens on Saturday night while performing routine waste collection duties in the central neighborhood of Kypseli.
Hiker who fell off ravine in bear attack is found unconscious
A Greek hiker who fell into a ravine more than 800 meters deep in a remote forest in northeastern Greece on Monday afternoon after being attacked by a bear, was found unconscious on Tuesday.
Fire breaks out in urban area of Athens
A fire broke out on a plot of land in Marousi, a suburb in northern Athens, on Tuesday morning.
Singer charged with domestic violence
A prosecutor in Athens charged a Greek singer with causing bodily harm after he allegedly attacked his former wife during an altercation on Saturday.
EU will propose more flexibility for defence procurement, commissioner says
The European Commission will propose next week to give governments more flexibility on defence procurement and make access to European funding easier, European Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Tuesday.
Two injured in scuffle between German and Greek tourists in Kos
A fight broke out late Saturday night at a nightclub in the eastern Aegean island of Kos between Greek and German tourists, leaving two Greek men seriously injured, according to state-run broadcaster ERT.
Greece on the cusp of creating two major marine parks
At the 9th Our Ocean Conference in Athens last year, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that Greece would create two marine parks that would raise the extent of Greece’s marine protected areas to 30 percent.
Missing hiker found in ravine after bear attack
A Greek hiker who fell off a cliff on Monday afternoon trying to escape a bear attack in the lush Fraktos Forest in the northeastern part of the Rodopi mountain range, near the border with Bulgaria, was located by rescuers on Tuesday morning.