About 2 a.m. on March 19, Adam Wood, a San Francisco firefighter on duty, received a 911 call and raced to the city’s Mission neighborhood to help a male who was having a medical emergency.
In his native land, an island in the eastern Aegean where his parents and grandparents eked out their livelihoods from the soil, he has been witnessing the gradual collapse of fields for years.
Serbia has acquired 11 Russian-made Mi35 helicopter gunships from Cyprus as it seeks to bolster its air force and maintain regional military supremacy, the country’s President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.
The European Commission on Thursday presented its proposal for a direct support measure worth 43.1 million euros for Greek farmers affected by natural disasters.
The 33-year-old self-styled anarchist Konstantinos Giatzoglou has been handed a suspended prison sentence of 11 years for the parcel bomb attack on Greek economist and former prime minister Loukas Papademos in 2017.
Central Athens was imbued with a festive atmosphere on Thursday, as the 17-meter Christmas tree in Syntagma Square was lit by the mayor of the Greek capital, Kostas Bakoyannis.
Stock price growth continued on Thursday at Athinon Avenue, albeit without the steam it had on Wednesday, given also the US holiday.
SYRIZA’s decline in public opinion polls combined with PASOK’s marginal rise has fueled speculation that the country is going back to the bipolar political landscape.
The latest poll by Pulse for Skai TV showed that New Democracy maintains its dominance and that socialist PASOK has entrenched its position in second place, albeit with a small difference from main opposition leftist party SYRIZA.