Wildfires ravage Greece amid high winds
Three wildfires are currently active amidst strong winds and high danger in Attica, Crete and the Peloponnese.
Three wildfires are currently active amidst strong winds and high danger in Attica, Crete and the Peloponnese.
The threats by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan that the war in the Middle East would spread westward, especially to the Republic of Cyprus and Crete, are seen to constitute a clear rhetorical choice and yet another dissonance in the process of normalization of Greek-Turkish relations over the last 16 months.
Authorities in Kalamata, the capital of Messinia in the southwestern Peloponnese, appealed to residents and visitors on Wednesday to be frugal with their use of water, after shortages were noted across the region.
Celestyal Cruises announced on Tuesday its year-round programs from 2025 to early 2027 to go on sale from Wednesday, with a 30% capacity increase.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis demanded a “dynamic restart” from his New Democracy party’s parliamentary group on Wednesday, during its first meeting since the below-expectations European election results on June 9.
The five defendants arrested last week in connection with the brutal attack on volunteers in the Mount Parnitha area of northern Athens on May 25 were remanded in custody on Tuesday.
Greece’s main opposition SYRIZA is in for more upheaval, after three cadres announced their intention to quit the party’s executive bodies, but not the party itself.
NATO appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general on Wednesday, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world’s biggest security organization.
The crew members of a yacht accused of starting a forest fire last week on the Greek island of Hydra are expected to deny arson charges when they appear before a judge on Wednesday, a legal source said.
The Greek police’s organized crime unit broke up a meeting of Russian-speaking gangsters who had gathered in central Athens on Tuesday, making 13 arrests.