Another incident of violence between minors
Another serious incident of violence between minors took place in Athens. Dozens of teenagers started viciously attacking each other on Friday night in Syntagma Square.
Another serious incident of violence between minors took place in Athens. Dozens of teenagers started viciously attacking each other on Friday night in Syntagma Square.
Citizens who were appointed members of the electoral committee for Greece’s municipal and regional elections were not “moved” by the 40 euro reward to assist in polling stations on the Sunday of the first round, and the additional 30 euros for the second round.
Voting for Greece’s local elections commenced at 7 a.m. on Sunday and will continue until 7 p.m.
Nearly one in four storefronts in Athens’ so-called commercial triangle, a traditional hub of economic activity bounded by Omonia, Syntagma and Monastiraki squares, are shuttered and its traditional commercial activity is waning in favor of businesses and services catering to the capital’s increasing tourist population, research shows.
Burnt trees and other flotsam from the summer wildfires in Evia and, perhaps, in Magnesia on central Greece’s eastern coast, have ended up in the sea and are creating a sailing hazard in the Kafireas Strait between the islands of Evia and Andros and, further south, to the island of Tzia.
Workers clean the glass sculpture “Dromeas” (The Runner) by Greek artist Costas Varotsos in Athens on October 4.
In the Netherlands, Elma Baten worked for the police as a communications consultant. In Kastellorizo, a small Dodecanese island in the Eastern Mediterranean, she has taken up various jobs.
Twenty flights from Athens will carry some 5,000 Israeli reservists to their home country to join the armed forces.
Migration and interior ministers from five European Union countries most affected by migration across the Mediterranean — Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain — hailed a new EU pact on migration but said more resources were needed.