Livestock pox restrictions leave shepherds stranded as winter snow arrives
The first snow of the season has fallen on Greece’s mountains, with some shepherds and their flocks still stuck at high altitudes due to livestock pox restrictions.
The first snow of the season has fallen on Greece’s mountains, with some shepherds and their flocks still stuck at high altitudes due to livestock pox restrictions.
Heavy rainfall swept across Greece in early October, with several regions recording significant precipitation, according to the meteo.gr weather network.
Three teenagers, ages 15, 16 and 19, have been arrested in the southern Athens suburbs of Argyroupoli and Alimos on charges of forming a gang that carried out armed robberies against food delivery workers.
Greece’s Roma community is primarily a young population group, with a significant proportion living in housing that does not meet basic health standards and surviving either by taking occasional day jobs or through state benefits.
Endy Zemenides, HALC’s executive director, joins Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at both the opportunities and the potential pitfalls that US Ambassador Kimberley Guilfoyle needs to be aware of as she prepares to arrive in Athens and looks to add her mark to the US-Greece relationship.
After missing the start of Milwaukee’s training camp due to testing positive for Covid-19, Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is set to join the team in Miami this weekend.
Some 137 activists detained by Israel for taking part in a flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza are being flown to Istanbul, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
Thirteen Turkish nationals were charged on Saturday with trafficking firearms after being arrested in northern Greece with 147 illegal firearms, hundreds of bullets and other weapon parts, authorities said.
Convergence with the ratings of other Southern countries, such as Spain and Portugal, is a matter of several more years.
Eleven people were arrested after clashes between self-styled anarchists and police in Athens’ central Exarchia district in the early hours of Saturday, authorities said.