Investigation ongoing into shooting that injured border guard
The authorities are investigating the shooting incident on Saturday afternoon in Soufli, Evros, that injured a 54-year-old border guard, it was reported on Tuesday.
The authorities are investigating the shooting incident on Saturday afternoon in Soufli, Evros, that injured a 54-year-old border guard, it was reported on Tuesday.
The message from the prime minister’s office is clear: there is no room for summer relaxation and no time for a “September reboot.”
A a 41-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman were arrested by the police on Sunday, in connection with the killing of a 64-year-old man in the community of Agios Petros, North Kynouria Municipality, in Arcadia.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in his weekly social media address on Sunday.
Heatwave continues on Sunday across the country, with temperatures expected to reach up to 41 degrees Celsius, while a gradual decline is expected to start on Tuesday.
The number of empty lots – properties without buildings – not declared to the national property registry is about 3.3 million, or 22% of the total. Similarly, undeclared built properties, including flats in apartment buildings, exceed 147,000.
A border guard who was injured after being shot by unknown assailants from the Turkish side on Saturday afternoon in Soufli, Evros, is now hospitalized and out of danger, it was reported on Sunday.
The Agriculture Ministry is sending its entire team of veterinarians to Central Greece starting on Monday as it seeks to get ahead of a serious outbreak of ovine rinderpest, which is threatening to decimate livestock farmers’ sheep and goat flocks in the region of Thessaly.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in Nicosia Saturday, said “that Hellenism will not stop fighting until Cyprus is reunited.”
A Greek border guard was shot in the abdomen Saturday while patrolling an area of the Greek-Turkish border where undocumented migrants seek to enter the European Union.