Greece experienced 3,543 wildfires between January 1 and May 1, a rise of 22% compared to last year’s 2,907 blazes, according to the Fire Service, which is bracing for a very difficult season.
The Athens Street Food Festival transforms the historic Old OSY Bus Depot (Pireos & Ermou) in Gazi into a culinary paradise for three weekends this month.
Pope Francis extended Easter greetings to Orthodox believers gathered in St Peter’s Square in Rome, expressing warm wishes for their Easter celebrations.
Police arrested a man for violations of fireworks legislation on Holy Saturday afternoon in Ierapetra, southeastern Crete.
During Easter celebrations, the persistent use of firecrackers, flares, and improvised pyrotechnics despite authorities’ warnings continues to exact a heavy toll each year.
An elderly woman was discovered dead after a fire engulfed an apartment in the Athenian district of Agia Paraskevi.
A 15-year-old boy sustained severe hand injuries on Easter night in Chania, Crete, according to public broadcaster ERT.
Persistently high temperatures that point to a significant climate shift continued last month, with many parts of Greece experiencing the warmest April of the past 15 years.
The ‘Holy Light’ arrived in Athens shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday and is making its way across Greece to arrive in time for the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ.
The Eurovision Song Contest, a music kitsch-fest watched by some 200 million people, kicks off in Malmö, Sweden, on Sunday with its “turquoise carpet” gala, in what fans say is a wide-open year with half a dozen countries having a shot at the title.
The Epitaphios procession, symbolizing the bier that carried the body of Jesus to his grave, took place across Greece on Good Friday, which was Good Friday in the Orthodox Christian calendar.
Police on Samos are investing the murder of a 70-year-old man, who was killed in his home in Vathy the early hours of Holy Saturday.
The Hellenic Cardiology Society is advising heart patients to remove the saltshaker from the table, avoid the skin and fat from the lamb or goat and the nibbling that precedes the meal in order to avoid unpleasant surprises on Easter Day.
The Easter exodus from the cities to the islands and countryside, the largest recorded since before the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to enter its final stage on Easter Saturday.
Three people are due to appear before a prosecutor in the northeastern city of Alexandroupoli on charges of human trafficking and illegal possession of a travel document.
Traffic has eased on the major thoroughfares out of Athens after the Easter exodus from the capital peaked on the afternoon of Good Friday.
Nikos Michaloliakos, the formerly powerful leader of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has been conditionally released from prison after a decision by the judicial council of Lamia in central Greece.
Turkish exporters with firm orders are looking at ways to send their goods to Israel via third countries after Turkey halted bilateral trade, four export company owners told Reuters, saying the decision had caught them by surprise.
Easter and its central message of the resurrection “serves as the motivation for the struggle against the presence of evil and its consequences in the world, acting as a powerful transformative force,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has said in his Easter encyclical.
A 25-year-old man was arrested in the city of Larisa, central Greece, on Friday after he was spotted walking naked in the town center, local media reported.
A wildfire broke out in low vegetation in Viotia, northwest of Athens, on Friday.
A boat with 33 migrants on board was located by a cargo ship off the southern coast of Crete early Friday morning.
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