The prosecutor handling the case of the 8-year-old who drowned in a swimming pool has ordered a safety investigation into the children’s camp in Kryopigi, Halkidiki, where the incident occurred.
Panagiotis Karipoglou, president of the Serres Bar Association, will file a complaint with the chief prosecutor over the ongoing fire on Mount Orvilos, near Greece’s northern border with Bulgaria.
Two individuals, aged 43 and 22, were arrested at the airport on Mykonos island for drug trafficking.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has visited an air base in Elefsina to thank the country’s aerial firefighters.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Coast guard officers have rescued 52 migrants off the south of Crete after receiving a call for help through the emergency 112 number.