The 36-year-old man who was pushed off the boarding ramp by the crew of a departing ferry at Piraeus on Wednesday died by inhaling sea water, the port city's coroner's office said.
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Four crew members of the Blue Horizon ferry were prosecuted on Wednesday for the death of a 36-year-old male passenger after being pushed off the boat.
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The fires that broke out in Greece since the start of 2023 burned a total of 170,000 hectares (1.7 million stremmas), with 120,000 of these (1.2 mln stremmas) destroyed in the August fires alone, the National Observatory for Forest Fires (NOFF) said on Wednesday.
Traffic on the Lamia-Katerini highway, in the direction of Thessaloniki, has been restored while traffic from Katerini to Lamia, in the direction of Athens, is carried out only in the left lane.
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Messages via the emergency number 112 were sent to the residents of Karditsa and Farsala advising them to stay indoors due to dangerous weather phenomena
Greece is watching with bated breath the developments regarding the unprecedented crime that unfolded last night in the port of Piraeus when members of the crew of the Blue Horizon
Alexopoulou, responsible for transport, said that the meeting focused on the delivery timetable, which aims to put the buses to use in the first half of 2024, and to raise the total such buses in both cities to 1,300 by the end of the second government term.
As the Greek minister said, they agreed that the road map will have the following three levels
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In a statement on the current extreme weather - which has already flooded cities like Volos in central Greece's Magnissia prefecture - Kikilias warned the public to follow orders by Civil Protection, the Fire Brigade and the Hellenic Police.
Due to the overcrowding issue, Mendoni stated that visitors mainly opt to visit the site during morning hours, resulting in congestion and unfavorable conditions for both the site and its staff.
"Britannica shows the entire 'Sea of Islands' as Greek territory," comments a post by the Turkish Maritime and Global Center for Strategic Studies, which Yaycı directs, calling the map used by the internationally renowned encyclopedia - in its electronic version - a "scandal".
In his message, Gerapetritis notes that the two countries that clashed almost 100 years ago ended immediately after in reconciliation and ways of cooperation. Something that "can be repeated under better conditions today", as he says, stressing that "an endless discussion cannot be an option".
The minister's visit to Turkey follows the meeting of the two leaders at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, and as Gerapetritis explained in his article, it is a decision by the two leaders to "intensify efforts to consolidate a climate of mutual respect and trust between countries."
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to the potential to extend the trilateral Greece-Cyprus-Israel cooperation through the participation of other countries such as India
The Greece-Cyprus-Israel Summit that will take place today in Nicosia is expected to send a message about the deepening and strengthening of trilateral cooperation as a triangle of stability, security and prosperity in the region
The weather is predicted to worsen from Monday, September 4 to Wednesday, September 6, 2023.
According to Bank of Greece (BoG) figures, travel remittances in H1 2023 totaled 6.175 billion euros, compared to 4.98 billion euros in the corresponding period of 2022 and 5.41 billion in 2019.
Fire-fighters and volunteers on Friday attempted to block flames from reaching the border town of Soufli.
The five candidacies for SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance's president were unanimously approved by the Central Committee at the opening of the works of SYRIZA.
Greece is issuing a new type of general identity card to observe European regulations and international aviation organizations by upgrading security features, Citizen Protection Minister Yiannis Economou said on Friday.
In August, Greece experienced a slight easing of inflation, with the rate dropping from 3.5% in July to 3.4%, according to Eurostat's Spain Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices. Meanwhile, Eurozone inflation remained stable at 5.3%.
