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Measures for Western Attica’s fire victims: Fast-tracked compensation and special measures for businesses
With the Greek parliament due to reconvene after recess, it has been decided that a bill will be tabled to speed up and digitise the procedures used by fire-affected individuals and businesses to file damage declarations and claim compensation
Fire breaks out in Koropi Industrial Area, 112 sends readiness alert to residents
Fifty-two firefighters, three ground crews, 14 vehicles, two aircraft and four helicopters are tackling the blaze
How to deal with a snake bite: What you need to know before heading into nature
The season has arrived when we start sharing our surroundings with snakes. Mountains, forests, holiday homes, hiking trails, they are all part of their territory too. Most of us know very little about snakes and hold plenty of misconceptions about them. One of the most important things to understand is how to respond if you are bitten.
Damage assessments begin in Porto Germeno: seven teams record damage to homes after fire
The Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister, Evangelos Tournas, visited Porto Germeno this morning as damage assessment teams from the General Directorate for the Restoration of Natural Disaster Effects began their inspections
Afghan boxer requests and granted one day extension before testifying to investigative magistrate
Sharif Ahmadzai will be questioned in court today over the killing of Elizabeth Jane Ross, whose body was found in a suitcase in Kypseli, as investigators probe whether the pair knew each other through refugee support work and examine bank withdrawals and messages from her phone
Forensic examination to settle conflicting death timeline of elderly man whose son froze him to collect his pension
Police in Sparta have charged the son of the deceased with concealing his father's death in order to keep collecting his pension, as investigators now await forensic results to establish when and how the elderly man died
Rare German Second World War wreck discovered in the Ionian Sea, 83 years after it sank, see photos
The wreck is the Kriegsmarine's LS 6, identified after years of historical research and a technical dive to a depth of 96 metres off Preveza. It was found almost intact, in a discovery considered unique worldwide
Work stress keeps seven in ten people over-50 awake at night
Nearly 70% of workers aged 50 to 66 show persistent, previously undiagnosed sleep problems, a University of Edinburgh study reveals, with poor work-life balance and job dissatisfaction linked to worse psychological and physical wellbeing overall
Three reasons why Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is eyeing a May election
The measures unveiled at September's Thessaloniki Fair will not reach people's pockets until January; the election will test the staying power of Tsipras, Samaras and Karystianou; and Mitsotakis is playing the institutional card of Greece's EU presidency
Sleeping in the Towers of Mani: A Drive Through Greece’s Most Defiant Landscape
On the Peloponnese's wild southern tip, fortress homes built by feuding clans are now the region's finest small hotels
