Tax and customs authorities said Friday they had dismantled a large-scale liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) smuggling network following coordinated raids across the country.
Greece will deploy around 18,000 firefighters, more than 100 surveillance drones and up to 85 aircraft during this year’s wildfire season, the government said Friday.
A 56-year-old man who was seriously injured in a three-car collision Friday morning in coastal Agia Marina, south of Athens, died shortly after being admitted to a hospital in nearby Voula.
Thousands of animals slaughtered to contain a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on the island of Lesvos are being buried without environmental safeguards, raising fears of lasting groundwater contamination, experts warn.
Thessaloniki’s metro system will suspend commercial operations for nearly a month beginning May 29 as crews carry out work related to the network’s expansion toward the suburb of Kalamaria, authorities said.
An appellate court decision allowing the conditional release of Alexandros Giotopoulos, the convicted leader of the now-defunct militant group November 17, is under review by a senior prosecutor, officials said.
Turkey has revoked the operating license of Istanbul Bilgi University, effectively forcing the private institution to shut down, according to a decision published in the country’s Official Gazette on Friday.
Strengthening the strategic cooperation between Greece and France in the protection of seas and the environment, as well as in critical areas of the energy transition such as decarbonization and electrification, was at the center of the meeting in Paris between Greek Environment and Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou, and French Minister for Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature Monique Barbut.
The mastermind of defunct Greek gurerilla group November 17, which carried out a 27-year campaign of assassinations, has been released from jail, two police sources said on Thursday.
The Council of State has recommended against raising the mandatory retirement age for judges, rejecting a proposal to extend service beyond 67, according to positions adopted by the court’s Administrative Plenary.
Alexandros Giotopoulos, identified by Greek authorities as the leader of the defunct November 17 urban terror group, was released from prison Thursday afternoon after the Piraeus Appeals Council approved his request for release.
Police are searching for suspects who allegedly posed as electricity utility workers and robbed an elderly woman in the Athens suburb of Psychiko on Wednesday afternoon.
A Fire Service rescuer was injured Thursday high on Mount Olympus during a large search and rescue operation for a missing Spanish climber, state ERT television reported.
Three 13-year-old schoolgirls have been arrested over a violent incident in the western Peloponnese that led to one of them being hospitalized, authorities said Thursday.
Another taxi driver has been arrested in central Athens for overcharging customers, police said Thursday, in the second such incident in as many days.
More than a dozen people have been charged with involvement in a gang behind a string of burglaries and at least one armed robbery in northern Greece that netted them more than €200,000, authorities said Thursday.
A state cancer hospital in northern Athens on Thursday suspended a doctor following allegations that he demanded a bribe from a patient, and ordered an investigation.
A large-scale drug crackdown on the island of Crete launched early on Thursday morning had seen 16 suspects remanded in custody by midday, as authorities focused their efforts on the activities of three families suspected of ties with organized crime.
A large-scale police operation was launched in Crete in the early hours of Thursday as part of a crackdown on the drug trade, and specifically on three suspected organized crime groups operating on the island.
The National Transparency Authority has completed a report into alleged irregularities involving publicly funded contracts for digital water meters.
Spatial plan to prohibit turbines on mountains above 1,200 meters or on smaller islands.
Nearly 48 hours after a strong odor spread across Athens’ southern suburbs and reached parts of the city center, authorities still had not provided an official explanation for its source.
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