A hospital in Lamia was still reeling in shock on Friday after a 44-year-old policeman, who was escorting a patient, punched a nurse in the face and kicked another one in the stomach, while threatening to kill the staff and burn down the premises.
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.
The Municipality of Paros has lodged a complaint with the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (DEDDIE), complaining that constant, prolonged and unpredictable power blackouts are harming the popular Cycladic island’s tourism industry.
As public gatherings and events are allowed for the first summer since the pandemic began, the return of the traditional “panigyria,” village festivals known for their music, is in full swing throughout Greece, from Evros in the north to the southern island of Crete.