Stormy weather hits Greece on two sides
A stormy weather front nicknamed Byron swept full-tilt into Greece from the south on Thursday, hitting the country in both the west and the east, with strong winds and heavy rain causing floods and rockfalls.
A stormy weather front nicknamed Byron swept full-tilt into Greece from the south on Thursday, hitting the country in both the west and the east, with strong winds and heavy rain causing floods and rockfalls.
No, we are not dealing with what detractors claim is the “same old custom” of farmers deciding to take to the streets during the January hiatus after having gorged themselves on food and drink over the holiday season.
Turkey is “closely monitoring” the “military activities of our neighbor Greece,” the country’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday, days after Athens announced plans to deploy missile systems on Aegean islands to deter Turkish naval access.
As dawn broke on the morning of December 22, 1945, the Mataroa set sail from Piraeus to Taranto in Italy. It was carrying 124 Greek students representing a broad scope of the scientific and artistic fields.
Farmers across Greece dug in their heels on Thursday, continuing their blockades of major highways and expanding rallies from Thessaly to Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus and western regions as the number of tractors on the roads continued to grow.
Besides the good weather, the delicious food and the unique flavors, Greece also offers something else: a pension that appears even 20% higher for Northern European retirees.
The driver of a Public Power Corporation (PPC) bus died on Thursday morning after suffering a heart attack en route to a plant in Kozani, northern Greece.
A Greek Coast Guard officer has been accused of buying heroin from a 49-year-old suspected drug dealer who was arrested in Athens on Tuesday and is under investigation for possible links to a wider narcotics network.
Grid operator DEDDIE is installing smart meters that are actually not smart enough to take Greece into the era of dynamic tariffs.
Turkey’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday construction work had started on its first indigenous submarine (MILDEN), adding that Ankara had also completed its first sale of a corvette warship to a NATO ally by inking an agreement with Romania.