Forest fires, as a natural phenomenon, are closely linked to environmental and climate conditions, which have evolved into a major natural disaster. Although, forest fires are considered an integral part of the planet’s forest ecosystem, a phenomenon that has existed from the beginning of time currently, due to plethora of human activity recorded especially in mixed forest-settlement zones, its is noticed that this has led to significant human losses and intense impacts on property and infrastructure. Greece has long endured forest fires, but today the climate crisis is accelerating the reali ..read more

Renowned author Paul Auster, who wrote a total of 34 books of which the New York Trilogy stands out, has passed away at the age of 77. According to his colleague Jackie Linden, Auster died on Tuesday due to complications from the lung cancer he had been suffering from in recent years. Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1947 and according to him, his writing life began at the age of 8 when he was unable to get an autograph from baseball player Willie Mays because neither he nor his parents had a pencil with them at the game. From then on, he took a pencil with him everywhere he went. “If ..read more

The Government Council of National Security convened Wednesday morning with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. See Also OSE: The Greek railway company utilises drones, cameras and optical fibers to safeguard its infrastructure During the session, there was an update from relevant ministers regarding the latest developments in the Middle East,  improvements in migration flows, and the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, as well as a presentation of preventive measures and initiatives to strengthen Civil Protection ahead of summer where fires ignite during the season ..read more

The Public Benefit Foundation Athanasios K. Laskaridis has become a protagonist of the news in the past few days – and there were many reasons for this: first of all, the strong presence of the Foundation with multiple interventions at the international conference ‘Our Ocean Conference’, where Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ announcements on a set of state initiatives aimed at protecting the environment from plastics, etc. Moreover, the Prime Minister’s visit to the ship ‘Typhoon’, as well as the important award of the Foundation for the cleaning of the coast of Magnesia from tons of plastic waste. Afte ..read more

July 23 will mark exactly 6 years since that fateful day of the fire in Mati that claimed the lives of 104 people and caused severe burns to about 60. By then, the country’s judicial authorities are hoping to have the procedures running in record time so that the trial of the defendants in the second instance (even as early as next June) will have been determined – or even started. The aim is to avoid the statute of limitations (after two years). Until then, however, the relatives of the 104 victims and the burn victims, following the outburst of anger against the decision of the Athens Trial ..read more

Tourism revenues reached 20.6 billion euros in 2023, according to final data from the Bank of Greece, showing an increase of 16.5% compared to 2022. This development is due to the 11.6% increase in receipts from residents of the EU 27 countries, which amounted to 11.169 billion euros, representing 54.2% of total receipts, as well as the 18.3% increase in receipts from residents of other countries, which amounted to 8.6 billion euros. The increased revenues reflect the 20.8% increase in inbound tourism traffic as the number of tourists visiting the country in 2023 reached 30.08 million compare ..read more

As unprecedented in the annals characterise the American media the operation conducted at dawn on Wednesday morning (local time Greece) the New York police in order to evacuate the occupation in Hamilton Hall of Columbia University, at the request of the rector’s authorities. “I’ve never seen such a large mobilisation of police officers for one spot,” a CNN reporter commented, with police officers entering Columbia through a first-floor window using a special ladder. After Columbia University, NYPD officers headed to City College located in Harlem in order to also remove students there who w ..read more

A family feud, which is feared to escalate, appears to be behind the barrage of gunfire that the 23-year-old was shot at while driving his farm truck in the Pano Logos area, in the Gortyna municipality, on Holy Tuesday afternoon. The young man, who escaped by luck, was charged about a year ago with attempted murder against a 43-year-old relative of theirs. In March 2023, the 23-year-old and his brother had ambushed a petrol station in the Pretoria area and opened fire on him, but the 43-year-old managed to escape without being injured by the bullets. The attack had been recorded by a closed-c ..read more

With increased controls in the market by groups of agencies of the Ministry of Development, the Regions and the Ministry of Rural Development and under the threat of punitive fines, they attempt to put a brake on any speculative phenomena as the commercial traffic of the Easter holiday season escalates. The measure, which is being used to deter such phenomena, is expected to work in tandem with the well-known interventions by the Ministry of Development at two other levels to curb inflationary pressures. One level concerns the possibility of choosing the cheapest option for the consumer in sp ..read more

As the skin of Amalthea, the goat that raised Zeus with her milk, was used to cover his shield, so any shield covered with goat skin was called “Aegis”. Today, the role of our shield to protect us from natural disasters, such as fires that have become more frequent, more intense and larger due to climate change, is fulfilled by the civil protection programme “Aegis” – the first of its kind in Greece. In previous years, as firefighters explain, the ‘front line’ was formed by locals. They were the ones who fought the battle to contain the fire before the arrival of the fire brigades. But climat ..read more