Ambulance crashes into police bus stationed on national highway
A traffic accident occurred on Friday afternoon in the Platykampos area of Larissa, when a private ambulance crashed into a riot police transport bus that had been stationed on the national road amid farmers’ protests. According to Kathimerini, the ambulance was passing through farmers’ roadblocks »»»
Farmers’ meeting to determine further action
Greece’s farmers appear ready to escalate their protest actions, based on decisions taken at local assemblies. However, Thursday’s meeting of representatives from the farmers’ blockades, scheduled for 2 p.m. in Serres, will also determine whether a delegation will agree to meet with the government.»»»
Authorities seize over one tonne of cocaine on Greek-owned vessel
Authorities have seized a large quantity of cocaine, estimated by police to exceed one tonne, on a Greek-owned vessel, Kathimerini has learned. The investigation was carried out by Greece’s Narcotics Division in cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). According to sources, th»»»
On Naxos, a demolition that took two decades
For successive generations of residents and visitors to the Greek island of Naxos, the building in Alyko, located in the middle of the cedar forest, has always been there: dilapidated, eroded by the sea, full of graffiti. The unfinished hotel had been in this state since the mid-1970s, when its con»»»
Arrest in Oropos tied to transatlantic drug trade
A 39-year-old Albanian national arrested in Oropos is accused of belonging to a major narcotics network that moved cocaine from Ecuador and Brazil into Europe and Russia, according to Belgian judicial documents. He was detained November 19 under a European warrant tied to the September 2024 seizure»»»
Anti-flood works have their limits
Despite rainfall lighter than the deadly 2017 storm and the presence of a major new flood-control project, the town of Mandra in western Attica again faced danger this week. Experts told Kathimerini that flood-control systems have limits and that decades of unregulated construction continue to burd»»»
Storm Byron wreaks havoc across country
Severe weather from a system named Byron swept across Greece on Thursday, flooding roads, prompting school closures and triggering multiple emergency alerts as authorities warned of worsening conditions overnight. The storm hit large parts of the country, especially Attica, the Peloponnese and the »»»
Storm Byron wreaks havoc across country
Severe weather from a system named Byron swept across Greece on Thursday, flooding roads, prompting school closures and triggering multiple emergency alerts as authorities warned of worsening conditions overnight. The storm hit large parts of the country, especially Attica, the Peloponnese and the »»»