President of the United States Joe Biden sent a message of condolences to the families of those who died during the head-on collision of two trains in central Greece on Wednesday.
The positivity of both the Covid-19 and flu viruses increased over the past week according to the epidemiological report by the National Organization for Public Health on Thursday.
The Greek unemployment rate dropped to 10.8% of the workforce in January this year, from 12.4% in December 2022 and 13.7% in January 2022, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Thursday.
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday expressed his government’s “deep and sincere condolences” for the deaths of dozens of passengers in Tuesday’s train crash in northern Greece in a phone call to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Israel’s ambassador to Greece, Noam Katz, said he donated blood for the injured in the deadly train crash that has claimed the lives of 46 passengers and injured scores.
Greece’s newly-appointed transport minister said he was taking over on Thursday with a mandate to investigate the country’s deadliest train crash, to modernize an ailing railway system and to restore safety in train travel.
Human error was the final link in the chain of errors and omissions that led to the tragic train disaster in Tempe late Tuesday night.
A Hellenic Train stationmaster in Larissa, aged 59, who was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a train accident near Tempe, northern Greece, that led to the death of at least 46 people as given until Saturday to prepare his defence.
Greece’s National Blood Donation Center announced on Thursday that the “overwhelming” response to a blood drive called to cover the needs of the victims of Tuesday’s deadly train collision “have been fully met.”
Greece will do everything it can to prevent a repeat of a train disaster which killed at least 46 people, government spokesperson Giannis Economou said on Thursday.