A police operation is underway at the Court of Appeals in Athens after a driver forcibly entered the parking lot, claiming he had bombs and drugs in the vehicle. The driver, said to be 35 years of age, reportedly entered the parking lot at around 9 a.m. from Loukareos Street.
The head of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) has expressed his full support to a tax inspector who was attacked this week during the inspection of a pizzeria in Argostoli on the Ionian island of Kefalonia.
The National Public Health Organization (EODY) issued an update Friday on the Langya virus detected in China, stating that, for now, “there is no cause for concern.”
Eleven people, including two children and a gunman, were killed in a mass shooting in Montenegro on Friday, and six others were injured, a state prosecutor told Vijesti TV after an initial investigation of the crime scene.
A second group of 140 Ukrainian children arrived in Greece on Thursday night to spend a holiday in Greek summer camps. The children, who range in age from 6 to 15 and are from the city of Bucha, entered the country from Bulgaria at Promachonas.
A firefighter was injured when a snake bit him as he was helping to put a fire out in Neapoli, at the Andravida-Kyllini municipality in western Peloponnese on Friday.
An 8-year-old girl died on Friday after being found unconscious in a car in a northern suburb of Athens. The incident occurred in a Roma settlement in Halandri.
Arrivals from abroad at the country’s 14 largest regional airports exceeded all expectations in July, boosting hopes that this will be a record-setting tourist season, better even than 2019, the last year before the Covid-19 pandemic’s heavy impact on both transport and tourism.
Greece remains a member of a cooperation framework between China and over a dozen Central and Eastern European countries, which Latvia and Estonia withdrew from Thursday, following in the footsteps of Lithuania, which withdrew last May.
Having already killed thousands of trees across Greece in recent years, a fungus is now threatening an entire plane tree forest in Tempi, Central Greece.