With temperatures peaking in the low 40s Celsius on Friday, authorities have issued a fire hazard warning for Saturday. According to the fire hazard prediction map published by the Civil Protection Agency, five regions are considered to be at very high risk of wildfires, ranking at Level 4 (orange) out of 5.
Temperatures of over 80 degrees Celsius in parked cars have been detected by thermal cameras as the heat wave ‘Kleon’ peaks over the country, with maximum temperatures reaching 42-43 Celsius in places.
A sweep at Athens’ high-security Korydallos Prison has turned up 15 grams of cocaine, 9.6 grams of heroin, 50 grams of processed cannabis, a makeshift knife and a metal rod.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that the “problems of Western Thrace” was the “main issue” he raised with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at their meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius.
An employee of power transmission operator ADMIE has been hospitalized after being electrocuted while cutting branches near power lines in the northwestern region of Florina. State broadcaster ERT said the accident happened after a branch fell on a high voltage cable.
The governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, described the recovery of investment grade as a big challenge for the Greek government at the moment, stating however that he is confident that it will happen this year and will bring more direct foreign investments.
Euclid Tsakalotos, who served as the minister of finance from 2015 to 2019, has announced his candidacy for the leadership of SYRIZA following the resignation of Alexis Tsipras.
An Albanian court has rejected the appeal by Fredi Beleri, the mayor-elect of Himare in southern Albania and an ethnic Greek, who was seeking release under restrictive measures.
New wind power farms with a total energy capacity of 252.5 megawatts and a total investment of 260 million euros were connected to the country’s electricity grid in the first half of 2023, the Hellenic Wind Energy Association (HWEA) said in a report.
In a message on Twitter Friday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid tribute to Thanos Axarlian, a 20-year-old student killed during a botched assassination attempt by the now defunct November 17 terrorist group on July 14, 1992.