The fires came first. Then the floods. In the small village of Sesklo in central Greece, 46-year old Vasilis Tsiamitas has felt the extremes of both freak weather phenomena this summer that have made Greece a climate change hotspot.
Severe storms and flooding have left nine people dead across Turkey, officials said Monday, including one seaman who died when a cargo ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast. Eleven other crew were reported missing.
Revealing unsettling data on the sexual abuse of children on Monday, Deputy Parliament Speaker Odysseas Konstantinopoulos said it is an “obligation and duty of everyone to protect our children from sexual predators.”
Police in Athens are looking for a man suspected of having carried out sexual assaults against a 13-year-old girl and two women in their 20s in the downtown district of Exarchia in the course of just two days.
The Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation, an initiative launched by Greek-Nigerian basketball sensations the Antetokounmpo brothers to provide opportunities to children from underprivileged backgrounds, has launched a partnership with the American College of Greece.
Scientists at the National Observatory of Athens have launched a petition seeking the public’s support in opposing a recent government decision to transfer oversight of the respected research institution to the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry.
In view of the alarming rate of violence involving minors, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) has stepped up special operations to combat the phenomenon.
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Monday inspected the final arrangements at the new Museum of Modern Greek Culture, which is expected to open its doors to the public by the end of the year.
Two people died in separate accidents within a few hours of each other overnight on Syngrou, a major avenue linking central Athens to the capital’s southern coast.
The timing of recent comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Turkish Navy Chief Ercument Tatlioglu ahead of the scheduled meeting of the High Cooperation Council (HCC) between Greece and Turkey in Athens, in the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are seen as signs of a deteriorating atmosphere…