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Under a 2.1 billion euro ($2.25 billion) plan, Greece has concluded tenders for more than 1,000 fire engines and seven DHC-515 aircraft, and plans to install sensors to detect smoke. Experts worry ...
In July 2023, multiple wildfires started in Greece. They resulted in at least 28 deaths [1] and injured 75 people, with over 80 wildfires being recorded. Seventy-nine people were arrested for arson. [2] High temperatures reached 41.0 °C (105.8 °F), with highs anticipated to reach 45.0 °C (113.0 °F) in Rhodes. [3]
On 28 February 2023, a head-on collision occurred between two trains south of the Tempe Valley in Greece, about halfway between the Greek villages of Tempi and Evangelismos in the Thessaly region. The collision, involving the InterCity 62 (IC62) passenger train and an intermodal freight train, killed at least 57 people, with an official number ...
2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster. On 14 June 2023, an Italy-bound rusty, aging, overloaded fishing trawler smuggling migrants sank in international waters in the part of the Mediterranean known as the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece. [6] [7] [8] The boat, named Adriana, [a] which had a capacity of 400 people [9] carried ...
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece and Turkey on Thursday agreed to reboot their relations, establishing a roadmap designed to usher in a new era of ties between the two NATO allies but historic foes. In a ...
On 29 April, 10 news cases were confirmed within the previous 24 hours. An 89-year-old man at NIMTS Hospital died. On 30 April, one new death and 15 new cases were confirmed. The confirmed total number of recoveries was announced to be 1,374. May 2020. On 1 May, no new deaths and 21 new cases were confirmed.
Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring thousands of islands. The country comprises nine traditional geographic regions, and has a population of nearly 10.4 million. [4] Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras .
June 2023 Greek legislative election. Snap parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 25 June 2023. [1] [2] [3] All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament were contested. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the snap vote after the May 2023 elections did not result in any party gaining a majority, although his centre-right New ...