Nectarios Triantis, a 22-year-old central defender preparing for the English Premier League season opener with newly promoted Sunderland on Saturday, has made himself available for selection to Greece’s national team, the country of his parents’ birth.
Evacuations have been ordered for residents of Patras suburbs, Greece’s third-largest city, as the fire that started in Achaia, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula, has reached the urban area.
Every summer we come into contact with Greeks who live and thrive abroad in various fields.
A 61-year-old woman died from injuries sustained in a traffic accident Wednesday afternoon in Keratea, southeast of Athens, when the vehicle she was driving collided with a fire truck.
Sometimes the effectiveness of a state is measured by the most mundane details – like who repairs the potholes left in the roads after excavation work.
The Governmental Committee for State Aid, chaired by Deputy Minister for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Konstantinos Katsafados, met urgently on Wednesday to approve measures for regions hit by fires in June, July, and August, including the greater Athens area, north Aegean, western Greece, Epirus, Crete, the Ionian Islands, and central Greece.
A police officer driving his personal vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian Wednesday morning in the coastal town of Artemida in eastern Attica, authorities said.
The Athens Stock Exchange reversed early losses due to profit-taking and ended close to its intraday high Wednesday. It was the eighth straight session with recorded gains.
Police arrested a 25-year-old man for arson in the area of Girokomeio, Patras, on Wednesday afternoon.