About 40 migrants reported by aid groups to have been stranded for days on a river islet inside a restricted military zone at the border with Turkey are located at a point “outside Greek territory,” a statement from police headquarters in Athens said on Sunday.
Police found €1.2 million in cash, as well as large amounts of cocaine, cannabis and other drugs, in the car that a 33-year-old former reality TV contestant forcibly drove into a courthouse parking lot on Saturday morning. Another €300,000 was subsequently recovered in a raid on the man’s home.
Police near Thessaloniki arrested a 25-year-old man on Friday after 13 undocumented migrants were found in his passenger car. Ten of the migrants were found in the main part of the car and three in the trunk. Police spotted the car near the Lagadas junction on the Egnatia Odos, north of Thessaloniki.
The Foreign Ministry said it is “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in a fire at a church in Giza, Egypt,” in which at least 41 people were killed and 45 injured on Sunday. “Our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and wishes for a swift recovery to the injured,” the ministry said.
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the island of Lefkada in western Greece on Sunday afternoon according to the Athens-based Geodynamic Institute.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias stated that Cyprus remains an unsolved incident of illegal occupation despite consecutive rulings by the United Nations Security Council in a statement released on social media on Sunday marking 48 years since the second Turkish offensive on the island.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will travel to the island of Tinos on Monday to attend the local ritual of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary as well as marking the anniversary of the torpedoing of the Greek cruiser ‘Elli’ by an Italian submarine in 1940.
Online and telephone scams have become a scourge, with estimates suggesting they cause hundreds of millions of euros in losses every year.
Rising energy costs, despite generous government subsidies, are forcing retailers to make some hard choices.
The number of air ambulance missions collecting patients is expected to hit a decade high following the increase in tourist traffic.