Greece

Two teenager foreign nationals on vacation in Greece died and a third one was seriously injured while they were doing parasailing in the Lindos area of the island of Rhodes on Wednesday. The accident happened when the ropes tying their surfboard to the kite broke, and they were thrown against …

The public prosecutor in Piraeus has asked for the arrest of the captain of container ship “Maersk Launceston” over charges that he caused a maritime accident through negligence and violated international rules on avoiding collision. The container ship crashed into the stern of Greek Navy minesweeper Kallisto on Tuesday morning …

October 28: The  message of the F-16 pilot – “Two syllables, the Greek soul. The message of the Pilot of the Air Demonstration Team of the F-16 ZEUS Individual Aircraft of the Air Force, for the National Holiday of October 28th.   The pilot’s message of the Air Force F-16 …

Fighter jets and helicopters flew over Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities on Wednesday morning to mark the national OXI Day holiday as military and students’ parades have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Traditional events to honor the fight against Nazism and Fascism were held with a very limited …

Greece broke all possible record on Tuesday with regards to daily coronavirus infections, deaths within 24 hours and number of intubated Covid-19 patients. Health authorities announced 1,259 new cases, 12 deaths and 102 intubated patients in hospitals ICUs. So far, the total cases reached 32,752 and death toll 593. Among …

Cases have in creased rapidly, we are now looking at four digit numbers with over a thousand new cases in the last twenty four hours. EODY announced 1259 new cases of coronavirus in the country, of which 112 are associated with known outbreaks and 62 were detected following checks at …

Head of “Greece 2021” committee, Giana Angelopoulou-Daskalaki, has invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend the celebrations marking 200 years from the Greek Revolution against the Ottomans in 1821. As daily kathimerini revealed the invitation was forwarded to Erdogan via “channels” and after consultation with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. …

Dozens of children have not attended a single hour in school classes on the island of Crete in the new school year because their parents are mask deniers. Juvenile prosecutors have intervened and investigate. Almost 70 children in Crete have not taken a single hour of classes because their parents …

The Office for National Statistics said there was now ‘no difference’ between your risk of catching the virus abroad as in England. Travellers returned from countries including Greece and Italy.

The Turkish aggression and the Greek-Russian bilateral relations were the key points of a meeting held by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday. The meeting is taking place at a difficult time, Mitsotakis said, when “Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean, South Caucasus and the …