Lesvos is to become the first Greek Aegean island to have a direct ferry service with Izmir in Turkey. The service is scheduled to begin on June 17, when the ferry will sail from from Izmir to Mytilene port.
A court in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, handed a 13-year jail sentence to a 28-year-old man who killed his uncle in March 2021.
Greece’s main opposition party, leftist SYRIZA, called on the ruling Conservatives to brief Parliament about a plan to send more Soviet-style weapons to Ukraine in exchange for the delivery of infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) from Germany.
People will still have to wear facemarks inside ferries, taxis and pharmacies in June, the committee of experts advising the government on the coronavirus decided unanimously on Wednesday.
A fire that broke out on Wednesday in low vegetation in the area of Schisto in northwestern Attica has been brought under control, firefighters said.
The lower part of the revamped area below Syntagma Square in central Athens will be delivered to the public on June 15, according to the Municipality of Athens.
A court in Athens on Wednesday handed a 22-year-old Greek trapper a 10-month suspended sentence and ordered him to pay a fine for the illegal possession of a weapon.
Seeking to deconstruct Turkey’s revisionism as expressed this week regarding Greece’s sovereignty, the Foreign Ministry has issued and distributed 16 maps tracing the course of Ankara’s positions and claims over the last 50 years to all embassies and Greece’s permanent representations abroad.
The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) said new coronavirus infections dropped to 4,026 on Wednesday from 5,080 the previous day, while nine more patients died – three less than Tuesday.
An autopsy is expected to reveal the cause of the sudden death of a 12-year-old girl from the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday morning.