Three separate fire fronts were still burning in the island of Rhodes late afternoon Monday, as firefighters tried to fight strong winds and put out rekindlings in several locations for a seventh consecutive day, said the Fire Brigade.
A traffic accident led to a car overturning near the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in southern Athens on Monday afternoon. The accident, that occurred at approximately 3 p.m., has led to disruptions in traffic.
British airline Jet2 announced a further four flights for Monday night to repatriate its passengers back to the United Kingdom following the catastrophic wildfires on the island of Rhodes.
The financial endurance of tenants looking for a property in Attica is at breaking point.
The first time Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital was on duty to accept emergency cases in June, it treated 908 people. Doctors decided that 189 needed hospitalization. Almost unheard of for a Greek hospital, none of them had to lie on gurneys – also called “supplementary beds” – in some corridor instead of a room. Eliminating “supplementary…
An allowance of 534 euros per month for up to three months will be provided to employees of businesses that were forced to close due to the fires, Labor Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Monday.
The three parties to the right of New Democracy are negative about the possibility of Greece appealing to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to resolve its differences with Turkey.
Freedom for the development of offshore wind farms in Greece is no longer what investors hoped it would be.
A weeklong wildfire on the Greek island of Rhodes tore past defenses Monday, forcing more evacuations, as three major fires raged elsewhere in the country fueled by strong winds and successive heat waves.
Holiday company TUI said it operated three flights overnight to return passengers to Britain from Rhodes, the Greek island where wildfires have sent tourists fleeing from hotels. “We’re now working hard to get everybody home safely with our first passengers returning to the UK on three dedicated flights overnight and plans in place to get…