Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40C in some places.
The Omonoia organization representing the ethnic Greek minority in southern Albania, and the parties of the Albanian opposition chose as their joint candidate in the repeat municipal elections of August 4 in Himare Petro Gjikuria, an ethinic Greek Albanian who lives and works in the United States.
A case of ovine rinderpest has been detected in a herd of goats and sheep in Kalabaka, in Thessaly, the Ministry of Rural Development and Food has announced.
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias signed a Letter of Intent on Thursday with his Romanian and Bulgarian counterparts for cross-border military mobility cooperation.
A 44-year-old suspect in the murder of civil engineer Panagiotis Stathis in the northern Athenian suburb of Psychiko was ordered to remain in custody following his testimony on Thursday.
Police in Thessaloniki have arrested four men on suspicion of beating a 52-year-old man before throwing him from balcony 6.5 meters above the ground.
A charred body was discovered in a car near a wildfire burning in agroforest land near Polichnitos on Lesvos island.
The wholesale electricity markets of South and Eastern Europe are seeing prices reminiscent of the energy crisis, led by the Hungarian market, where the rate on Wednesday shot up to 263.99 euros per megawatt-hour.
Greece’s Coast Guard said on Thursday it had rescued 22 migrants from an islet east of Leros, in the southeastern Aegean.
The state will employ state-of-the art satellite and aerial technology in order to locate illegal buildings throughout Greece.