Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis released a statement on social media on Wednesday expressing his gratitude to the countries that dispatched firefighting forces to Greece to combat the recent wildfires that are burning across the country.
The monastery of Osios Loukas in central Greece, one of the most important Byzantine monuments in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been engulfed in flames on Wednesday. There are significant firefighting forces on scene to avert the total destruction of the site.
With three new and more efficient natural gas units joining the national grid in 2025, the financial survival of older ones is at stake.
There is a very high fire risk on Thursday in the regions of Attica and the region of Central Greece ( Viotia and the island of Evia), according to the Fire Risk Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection at the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry.
The United States Embassy in Greece issued a bulletin warning US citizens living or travelling in Greece on Wednesday of the ongoing wildfires and the high risk in many regions.
Once all income tax declarations are in, by August 31 at the latest, authorities will focus on those taxpayers who have not filed returns over the past five years.
In an effort, years ago, to modernize the state and make it work better at all levels, important and critical responsibilities were assigned – and rightly so – to local government bodies.
Jessica Stern, the US Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons, and Nikos Efstathiou, a journalist and author from Athens and the current Managing Editor at the magazine LiFO, join Thanos Davelis to talk about the LGBTQI+ rights in Greece and around the world, and look at what Greece and the US…
Water-dropping planes from several European countries joined hundreds of firefighters Wednesday battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that left 20 people dead, while major blazes also burned in Spain’s Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border.
The Basketball World Cup – FIBA’s biggest tournament – starts Friday, spread out across three countries for the first two rounds before all the biggest games get played in Manila to decide which nation will go home with gold medals and the Naismith Trophy on Sept 10.