Search underway for three missing hikers in Vardousia mountains
A search and rescue operation is underway in the Vardousia mountains of Fokida, central Greece, for three hikers who went missing on Thursday, authorities said.
A search and rescue operation is underway in the Vardousia mountains of Fokida, central Greece, for three hikers who went missing on Thursday, authorities said.
Turkey’s energy minister said Russia had provided new financing worth $9 billion for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant being built by Moscow’s state nuclear energy company Rosatom, adding Ankara expected the power plant to be operational in 2026.
One of the defining features of Athens’ evolving cityscape is the renovation of post-war multi-story buildings, especially along streets in the broader city center.
A 7-year-old boy was killed and two family members injured in a house fire early on Friday in Rizoma, a village in the Rhodope region of northern Greece, local authorities said.
Young thoughts and dreams, seemingly disparate types of music, a love of jazz, trips between Greece and London, and a band that carries the tunes of the Balkans and the East: These are the elements that comprise “Reflections,” Sofia Roubati’s first full album, released just a few weeks ago.
Greece received 35.261 million visitors from abroad, against 33.788 million in the same period last year.
Nikos Plakias, who lost his twin daughters and a niece in Greece’s deadliest rail disaster, has criticized railway operator Hellenic Train over a Christmas greetings card he said showed a lack of sensitivity toward victims’ families.
Farmers protesting delays in European Union subsidies and other grievances maintained roadblocks across Greece on Friday, lining up thousands of tractors on major highways as they weighed whether to escalate their actions.
Istanbul police launched scores of simultaneous raids on Thursday, detaining over a hundred suspected members of the militant Islamic State group who were allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, authorities said.
Experts have started analyzing the black boxes recovered from a jet crash in Turkey that killed eight people, including western Libya’s military chief , the Turkish defense ministry said Thursday. The probe was being done in coordination with Libyan officials. The private jet with Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, four other military officers and three…