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Palaiofarsalos. to Athens. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stefanos Kasselakis. Stefanos Kasselakis ( Greek: Στέφανος Κασσελάκης; born 29 March 1988 [2]) is a Greek businessman, entrepreneur and politician, who is currently serving as the leader of Syriza. [3] Kasselakis spent a considerable portion of his life residing in the US, where he worked in the banking and shipping sectors ...
The number of national daily newspapers in Greece was 68 in 1950 and it increased to 156 in 1965. Mid through the Greek financial crisis in 2016, on a national level there were 15 daily general interest, 11 daily sports, 4 daily business, 10 weekly and 16 Sunday newspapers in circulation.
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.
2022 Greek floods. The seaside resort of Agia Pelagia was most heavily effected. In October 2022, Crete, the largest island of Greece was hit by destructive floods. [1] The floods were triggered by a large thunderstorm and heavy rains. [2] Two fatalities were reported along with 150 millimetres (5.9 in) of rain falling within less 12 hours.