A 7-year-old girl trapped under the rubble of her home in the Turkish city of Iskenderun, in Hatay province, was found dead by Greek rescuers on Tuesday, but her younger sister was pulled out alive, state-run broadcaster ERT reported.
All the plays put on by the National Theatre that are scheduled for Wednesday, 8 February, are cancelled due to a strike declared by the Greek Actors Association.
A draft bill aims to speed up decision-making in the country’s administrative courts over the next four years by bringing them in line with those in the European Union and eliminate pending cases.
The deaths of four children collected on Sunday morning from the sea off the southeastern Aegean island of Leros have been attributed to hypothermia, coast guard sources said on Monday.
Police in Athens have launched an investigation after four robbers broke into a home in the Nea Smyrni district and robbed at couple at knifepoint.
In a phone call on Monday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated Greece’s readiness to immediately assist Turkey in every way as it struggles with the dire consequences of two devastating earthquakes and many aftershocks in the southeastern part of the country and neighboring Syria.
Ships will remain docked on Wednesday and Thursday in all the ports of the country, due to a 48-hour nationwide strike announced by the Panhellenic Maritime Federation (PNO).
Residents in the Central Greece regional units of Viotia, Fthiotida, Magnesia and Evia have been urged to “drastically limit movements and follow the instructions of the authorities” due to heavy snowfall in their area.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurred shortly before 1 p.m. in the northern Halkidiki region, according to the Seismological Station of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The epicenter of the quake, which was also felt in Thessaloniki, was in the sea in the Toronean Gulf, at a depth of 9 kilometers.
The county’s armed forces will be subject to a special salary scale from January 1, 2024, under a government defense bill tabled in parliament, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.