Two wildfires, fanned by strong winds, raged uncontrolled through coastal towns near Athens on Monday forcing residents to flee their homes and prompting the evacuation of hundreds of children from a summer camp.
Social media is an amazing political tool, but it is also a dangerous trap. It is a tool because – as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ last successful electoral battle showed – it allows politicians to reach out to young and other voters who have never taken an interest in politics.
A large-scale operation to evacuate animals from shelters and stables in Southeast Attica after fires spread on Monday is under way, organized by the Special Secretariat for the Protection of Companion Animals (pets) that called for volunteers on social media.
Mario Banushi directs and stars in “Taverna Miresia – Mario, Bella, Anastasia” at the National Theater’s Eleni Papadaki Stage, as part of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.
The World Meteorological Organization said on Monday that a heatwave affecting the Mediterranean is forecast to intensify by mid-week and is likely to continue into August in some places.
Greek traffic police has stopped traffic circulation on the Athens-Corinth national highway from the Agii Theodori intersection to the Epidaurus intersection, on Monday, due to fires southeast of Loutraki.
The United States Mission in Greece issued an alert over the raging wildfires in eastern Attica and Loutraki.
Villagers were ordered to leave their homes as two separate wildfires fanned by strong winds damaged houses southeast and west of Athens on Monday, authorities said.
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck the region of Laconia in the Peloponnese on Monday. The quake occurred at 3.05 p.m. and its epicenter was located at sea, 12 kilometers east of Neapoli Voion.
The chairman of the EU-Albania Joint Parliamentary Stabilization and Association Committee, New Democracy MEP Manolis Kefalogiannis, is making an official visit to Albania. On Wednesday, July 19, he will chair a meeting of the Committee where the country’s accession path to the EU will be discussed. He will then also visit the town of Himare…