Kavala

A 53-year-old man has appeared before a prosecutor in the northern city of Kavala on suspicion of conducting an illegal excavation at the archaeological site of Philippi.

Police said the man, equipped with a metal detector, earphones, a small carving tool and an improvised digging tool, conducted the illegal dig on the site on Wednesday evening.

One dead and one injured after a car crash outside the northern city of Kavala on Saturday night. 

According to the police, the car hit a signpost and then fell into a ditch. The 33-year-old driver and the 61-year-old passenger, both of Albanian descent, escaped the crashed car and were transferred to the hospital. 

The 61-year-old man died later at the hospital. 

Vassilis Vassilikos, a highly acclaimed Greek writer best known for his 1967 political novel "Z," has passed away at the age of 89.

Police in northeastern Greece investigating the murder of a 68-year-old sheep farmer are understood to be focusing on members of the woman's family in order to identify the perpetrator.

Reflecting the changing mood in Greek-Turkish relations, Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos has hailed what he referred to as an extremely positive climate.

One man died and another was severely injured by a lightning strike early Sunday morning during a nighttime endurance race along six peaks of the Falakro mountain range, in the northern Greece prefecture of Drama.

An An-12 plane of a Ukrainian airline carrying "dangerous" cargo crashed shortly before 11 p.m. last night in northern Greece near the town of Paleochori, about 40 km from Kavala.

#BREAKING | Ukrainian plane Antonov 12 crashed in Greece. pic.twitter.com/d5ikrGEvrs

— REALIST (@realistqx1) July 16, 2022

An Antonov cargo plane operated by a Ukrainian airline crashed Saturday near the city of Kavala in northern Greece, authorities said. Local residents reported seeing a fireball and hearing explosions for two hours after the crash.

Many Greek municipalities have been paralyzed since the last elections were held using the simple proportional representation system legislated by the previous SYRIZA administration.

Greece has pushed back by a month a deadline for investors to bid for a contract to run an underground gas storage facility in the northern Aegean Sea.
Privatisation agency HRADF (or TAIPED), which manages the concession, said late on Tuesday that it had extended the deadline for initial bids to Sept. 30 from Aug. 31, without giving a reason for the delay.