Moored cargo ships collide at Thessaloniki port
A cargo ship moored at the port of Thessaloniki broke free due to strong winds in the area early Sunday, leading to a collision with another cargo vessel, port authorities have reported.
A cargo ship moored at the port of Thessaloniki broke free due to strong winds in the area early Sunday, leading to a collision with another cargo vessel, port authorities have reported.
A 76-year-old man, who had been declared missing since November 21, has been found dead after passing through the Kakavia road border crossing from southern Albania into northwestern Greece.
Thessaloniki residents braved the bluster of Storm Bora to welcome the much-anticipated metro to their city on its inaugural run on Saturday afternoon, touring the stations, admiring the exhibitions of antiquities found during its excavations and riding the trains.
Surfers enjoy the rolling waves whipped up by a stormy weather front dubbed Bora, in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada on Saturday, as heavy rains and gale-force winds caused problems in other parts of the country.
A new case of femicide was reported Sunday in Thessaloniki, where a man is accused of killing his wife and injuring their son before turning himself in to the police.
A one-year-old infant sustained a head injury during an altercation between four women in provincial city Pyrgos, northwestern Peloponnese, on Saturday.
NGOs are viewed with suspicion by a large segment of the public and are subject to what some of their leaders call “punitive” taxation by the state, according to a presentation by the Bodossaki Foundation.
Storm Bora, the weather system that swept across the country Saturday, claiming the lives of two men on Lemnos, has also impacted Rhodes, prompting authorities to impose a traffic ban as sections of the island’s road network have been heavily damaged.
The Education Ministry plans to introduce the International Baccalaureate, the two-year diploma program, to five public magnet schools in the next academic year.
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