The European Commission announced on Thursday that it had mobilized a total of nine firefighting planes to contribute to efforts to put out the dozens of wildfires burning in the country.
The funeral of 27-year-old Second Lieutenant Periklis Stefanidis, who died when a Canadair CL-215 firefighting plane crashed during operations on the island of Evia on Tuesday, took place in his hometown of Kilkis on Thursday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis carried out his regular monthly visit to the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Thursday, with the deadly fires being at the forefront of what they discussed.
There is a shortage of many pharmaceutical products and pharmacists fear that it will get worse over the winter, when respiratory illnesses will flare up again.
Two officers of the DIAS motorcycle unit were injured during a car chase in central Athens early Thursday morning.
Jailed former Golden Dawn deputy leader Ilias Kasidiaris announced on Thursday that he intends to run for the mayorship of Athens in October’s municipal elections.
Greece’s Foreign Ministry appointed Ekaterini Nassika as the country’s new ambassador to Washington and Theodoros Bizakis as new envoy to Ankara, it was announced on Thursday.
Firefighters in Greece battled flames burning for the 10th day on the island of Rhodes, while new blazes erupted on the mainland that destroyed farms and factories overnight and left farmers rushing to evacuate their animals.
PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis told lawmakers on Wednesday that he has learned of an additional attempt to tap his phone with illegal spyware apart from the two that were made public last year.
The public information services on the Athens public transport network at the main entrances to the Greek capital have been upgraded, with an info kiosk at the arrivals area of Athens’ international airport and the creation of a new service desk at the metro station at the port of Piraeus.