A fire broke out Monday in a rural area of the northern Peloponnesian region of Neos Erineos.
A man was convicted of involuntary arson on Monday for his role in Greece’s deadliest wildfire in memory, and five former fire officials found guilty of misdemeanours linked to their response to the 2018 blaze, judicial sources said.
A total of 16 defendants were detained following extensive hearings over the weekend regarding their involvement in a criminal organization and the murder of 31-year-old police officer Giorgos Lyngeridis outside a volleyball stadium near Piraeus in December.
A 63-year-old man, holding a jerrycan of gasoline, threatened to set himself on fire outside the facilities of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) in Lakonia, near Agios Nikolaos, in eastern Crete.
A new mobile application launched ahead of the summer season aims to empower beachgoers to report violations of beach access regulations across Greece’s popular coastlines.
A court in Athens convicted five former senior firefighting and disaster response officials on Monday, over a 2018 wildfire outside the capital that killed more than 100 people.
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake rattled the southern island of Crete on Monday morning.
Six years after the devastating wildfire in Attica’s seaside town of Mati and nearby areas, which claimed 104 lives and left dozens injured, a three-member misdemeanors court will issue its verdicts on the 21 defendants on Monday.
Greece has recovered the body of one migrant and rescued 25, while searching for at least four more believed missing after their boat sank off the island of Samos, the coastguard said on Sunday.
Police say they have arrested 9 suspects, 6 of them minors and three in their early 20s, for selling drugs to minors in the Athens suburbs of Psychiko, Papagou and Chalandri.
A significant mobilization of firefighting forces is underway in Fthiotida, southeastern Thessaly, to combat a blaze that ignited in a rural area.
A fatal traffic accident occurred shortly after midnight Saturday in the Panagouda settlement, located six kilometers north of the city of Mytilini on the island of Lesvos.
Stores will open on Sunday, in line with Easter holiday arrangements.
Gunfire erupted early Sunday outside a nightclub in the northeastern suburb Maroussi, resulting in one fatality and one serious injury.
A much greater number of violations related to the placement of table seating in public spaces were recorded in the first quarter of this year in the Greek capital, City of Athens data have shown.
A landslide struck the tiny island of Therasia (sometimes spelled Thirasia), situated near Santorini in the Greek Cyclades, on Saturday, according to reports.
One of the main suspects in the hooligan clashes that resulted in the death of a police officer in Athens in December was rushed to hospital on Saturday after what is thought to have been a suicide attempt.
An antiquities guard who worked on the southeastern Aegean island of Nisyros was arrested on Saturday morning in the town of Iraklio on Crete following numerous complaints of sexual indecency against minors.
A fire that broke out midday on Saturday in low-lying brushland near the highway linking the West Attica suburbs of Aegaleo and Aspropyrgos, had been partially contained before sundown, the Fire Service announced.
The younger Olympiakos fans who took part in the incidents in the Renti district of Athens last December that led to the death of a police officer outside a stadium during a volleyball match have been described by the police as the “strike force.”
Thirty-one defendants appeared in court on Saturday to answer to 12 felony charges, including murder and causing an explosion, along with 16 misdemeanors.
Authorities in Athens are investigating a potential data breach following a break-in at the Interior Ministry’s election directorate.
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