Administrative regions of Greece
Plan to rid Pedion tou Areos park of criminal elements
Regional authorities Tuesday unveiled a plan aimed at cleaning up Pedion tou Areos park in central Athens, where drug dealing and prostitution remain rife despite pledges by successive governments to improve the situation.
A decade of recovery for Mount Parnitha
It's been 10 years since the catastrophic wildfire on Mount Parnitha, just north of Athens. For over a week the fire, which started at the end of a record-breaking heat wave that baked the entire country with temperatures as high as 47 degrees in the hottest locations, burned much of the mountain's forestland, fueled by strong winds and low humidity.
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The downtown challenge
Police efforts to crack down on rampant crime in places like Menidi, northwest of Athens, are indeed praiseworthy.
However, there are still hundreds of reports made every day by Greeks and foreigners indicating that purse snatchers, pickpockets and all sorts of small-time crooks are the bane of many parts of downtown Athens and public transportation across the capital.
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Major shopping centers set to mushroom across the capital
Central Athens, the city's southern suburbs and Piraeus are expected to be the main locations of the next generation of shopping centers planned for the broader capital region by the end of the decade.
Former Greek Olympic Committee President Minos Kyriakou dies
Greek media mogul and shipowner Minos Kyriakou, a former president of the country’s Olympic Committee, has died. He was 75.
Kyriakou died Sunday of a heart attack, the private Athens Medical Center said.
Kyriakou was born on May 31, 1942 in Poros, Greece. He began his career as a ship owner in the mid-1960s and remained involved in the sector.
OLP ponders shipbuilding resumption
Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) chief executive Fu Chengqiu referred on Friday to the prospect of shipbuilding resuming in Piraeus as well as elsewhere in Greece, in the context of a joint visit with cabinet members to the Perama Ship Repair Zone.
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Heat wave pushes thermometer well over 40C
A woman takes a break from the heat under the shade of a tree in central Athens on Friday as Greece struggled with the summer's first heat wave. The National Observatory of Athens said the highest temperatures yesterday at 3 p.m.
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Car plunges into Piraeus port; driver safe
A 51-year-old motorist was pulled safely out of the water after his car plunged into the port of Piraeus, the ANA-MPA news agency reported on Thursday.
The unnamed man's vehicle get went off the dock and into the water in the port area of Ietionas under circumstances that are still being investigated.
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Memories of the 'blue building' in Exarchia
Years have passed and none of the builders, designers or original residents of the apartment block on the corner of Zaimi and Stournari streets in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia is alive anymore.
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Human traffickers hid 14 migrants in roof of their truck
Two Bulgarian nationals faced a prosecutor in Rhodopi, northern Greece, Wednesday on charges of attempting to smuggle undocumented migrants into the country after authorities found 14 people hidden in a special compartment in the roof of their truck.