Albania fights wildfire, arrests arson suspect
Albania is fighting a large wildfire near the western town of Lac, the army and firefighters trying to keep away the flames threatening houses, the interior minister said on Tuesday.
Albania is fighting a large wildfire near the western town of Lac, the army and firefighters trying to keep away the flames threatening houses, the interior minister said on Tuesday.
Firefighters on Tuesday found the burnt bodies of 18 people believed to have been migrants who had crossed the Turkish border into an area of northeastern Greece where wildfires have raged for days.
An officer of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) has been charged with bribery, abuse of power and breach of duty by the ELAS Internal Affairs unit.
I’m reading that dozens of Greeks have been lining up at police stations in some parts of the country, wanting to renew their identification cards before the new, more advanced ones are launched on September 1. These people are being lured by conspiracy theorists on social media who claim that the microchip embedded in the…
Mike Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration as director of the CIA and as secretary of state, will be the keynote speaker at the American Mediterranean Investment Forum, which will be held next month in Athens.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Bob Menendez, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have discussed Greek-American relations and developments in the wider region over lunch in Athens.
Migration Minister Dimitris Keridis said he learned “with great sadness of the deaths of at least 18 migrants in the fire in the Dadia forest.”
Two children were among the 18 people burned in a forest fire in the northeast of the country, Pavlos Pavlidis, coroner in the city of Alexandroupoli, has confirmed.
Albania’s prime minister on Tuesday responded to not being invited by Greece to a dinner for top officials from nine Balkan nations and the European Union by saying that in “such turbulent times” Europe’s unity is “larger than what divides us.”
A 43-year-old fan of Panathinaikos FC who had been detained in relation to the football violence in Nea Philadelphia on August 7 has been released after testifying before a prosecutor.