Israel’s Ambassador to Greece, Pnina Yanai, held a significant meeting with Lieutenant General Dimitrios Choupis, Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, as the two countries continue to strengthen their close defense and security relationship. The meeting focused on the strategic defense cooperation between Israel and Greece, as well as broader security issues affecting …
Authorities ordered four settlements near Athens evacuated Tuesday as large wildfires raged southeast of the capital and near the country’s biggest naval base on the island of Salamina, while firefighters fought more blazes northwest of the city and in northern Greece. Source link
A major fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon at 35N Cretan Distillery, a tsikoudia distillery located in the Sfakaki area of Rethymno, near the Heraklion Estavromenos National Road. The Fire Department was alerted at around 12:15 p.m., triggering an immediate response. A total of 21 firefighters, a team from the 3rd EMODE hiking unit and …
An Athens taxi driver has been arrested and faces criminal charges of robbery for allegedly using threats of violence to force a family of tourists to pay him more than ten times the legal airport fare, authorities said Tuesday. Source link
A drug trafficking network operating on Mykonos is suspected of using tourist transfer companies to hide its activities and launder money from cocaine sales, according to police documents seen by Kathimerini. Nine people — mostly Turkish, Albanian and Greek nationals — have been arrested. They owned three companies that ran passenger vans commonly used to …
Athens officials are assessing damage to 14 buildings in the Kypseli district linked to construction of a new metro line, while tunneling has been suspended since May because of ground subsidence. Source link
Greek singer Dimitris Kokotas has died at the age of 57 following a lengthy health battle that began in March 2024. Kokotas had been hospitalized at G. Gennimatas Hospital in Athens since March 28, 2024, when he suffered an acute myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest during rehearsals for the television entertainment show J2US. His condition …
Land surface temperatures in parts of western Attica scorched by a recent wildfire rose by as much as 12-14 degrees Celsius compared with pre-fire levels, according to satellite data analyzed by the National Observatory of Athens’ Meteo unit. Source link
A newly built product tanker linked to Greek shipowner Theodore Angelopoulos was struck by a projectile off Oman, damaging the engine room and leaving the vessel without propulsion. The ship is the LR2 tanker Metro Venetian, about 115,000 dwt and delivered in 2025. It was hit roughly nine nautical miles (17 km) northeast of Ash …
Anthony Quinn Bay, a beach on Rhodes, has become a test of Greece’s effort to enforce new beach-protection rules after allegations of unauthorized commercial use. Source link