Aid deliveries have begun arriving at a US-built pier off the Gaza Strip as Israel comes under growing global pressure to allow more supplies into the besieged coastal enclave, where it is at war with Palestinian militants Hamas and a famine looms.
The discovery of a Caretta caretta nest on May 10 in Lagana Bay, on the island of Zakynthos, has confirmed predictions that climate change has brought the turtles’ nesting season forward, the sea turtle protection society Archelon has said.
Some 51 migrants were rescued 33 miles southwest of the Cretan island of Gavdos on Friday afternoon.
In the following 20 days the Greek parliament will be called upon to ratify the US Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) for the supply of the F-35 fighter jets, Kathimerini understands.
Aiming to encourage walking, the Athens Municipality has introduced a digital tool with valuable data informing citizens and local authorities about the state of sidewalks and streets in the Greek capital.
Over 145,000 people aged 18 and 19 are eligible for this year’s Youth Pass, a state benefit in the form of a digital prepaid debit card worth 150 euros.
Refugee accommodation facilities and the Asylum Service have no interpreters as the Migration and Asylum Ministry has not renewed their contracts.
It is imperative to “halt hostilities and immediately put an end to the bloodshed and allow humanitarian aid to flow unimpeded into Gaza,” Foreign Affairs Minister George Gerapetritis has said, after meeting with this Canadian counterpart in Athens.
The European Union launched an investigation into flat-rolled iron or steel products plated or coated with tin from China in the latest effort to protect home-grown manufacturers.
The prosecutor in the Folli Follie trial has sought the conviction of the company’s founder Dimitris Koutsoulioutsos, his son Tzortzis and two close associates on a number of different charges.